Michael Imperioli presents The Perfume Burned His Eyes at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Location TBA.

FRACTURED LIVES: The after-life is usually a term reserved for the deceased, but what about the life after you lose someone? Novels by Laura van den Berg (The Third Hotel), Michael Imperioli (The Perfume Burned His Eyes), and Sigrid Nunez (The Friend) look at how to calibrate (or not) after a life is lost, what the living has to endure, how that redefines who one is, how one behaves, where one goes. The program will include short readings and a discussion moderated by Alex Gilvarry (Eastman Was Here).