SHOWS

We’re Waiting for You: Encountering the Homefront

Presented by DCA Theater & Chicago Fusion Theatre

Tuesday, March 20
6:30 PM — 8:30 PM
Chicago Cultural Center
FREE; Doors open at 6:00pm.

1st floor Garland Room, Chicago Cultural Center

First, hear renowned author Siobhan Fallon read from her collection of stories describing the experiences of families of service members, You Know When the Men Are Gone. See a live interview, then ask her questions of your own.

Additionally, you are invited to show your support for families of service members by writing them a letter. Materials will be provided. You can write to a parent, a spouse, or a child of a service member and extend your thanks and support. The letters will be distributed to the recipients via Blue Star Families’ Operation Appreciation.

Siobhan Fallon’s debut collection of stories, You Know When the Men Are Gone, was listed as a Best Book of 2011 by The San Francisco Chronicle and Janet Maslin of The New York Times, has been called “the explosive sort of literary triumph that appears only every few years” by New York Journal of Books, “a terrific and terrifically illuminating book” by The Washington Post, and a “searing collection” by Entertainment Weekly. Her stories and essays have appeared in Salamander, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, New Letters, Publishers’ Weekly, among others, and she writes a fiction series for Military Spouse Magazine. Siobhan is a proud Army spouse and lives with her family in Falls Church, Virginia. More can be found at her website www.siobhanfallon.com.

This event is presented in conjunction with the Chicago premiere production of Tony Meneses’ Las Hermanas Padilla, which is playing February 29 through April 1 at DCA Storefront Theater.