Name: Alice Austen, author of 33 PLACE BRUGMANN -an in-person Boswell event
Start: 2025-03-11T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-11T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Boswell Book Company

Alice Austen, author of 33 PLACE BRUGMANN -an in-person Boswell event
About this Event

Boswell Book Company presents an evening with Alice Austen, who visits with her newest novel, 33 Place Brugmann.

. Signed copies are available on most event preorders. If you have a personalization request, enter it in "order comments" at checkout. Please note: signed copies will ship AFTER the event. Remember to select “In Store Pickup” at check out to avoid unnecessary shipping fees on books you intend to pick up at the event.

On the eve of the Nazi occupation, in the heart of Brussels, life for the residents of eight apartments at 33 Place Brugmann is about to change forever. In the face of their perilous new reality, every member of this accidental community will discover they are not the person they believed themself to be. When confronted with a cruel choice—submit to the regime or risk their lives to save one another—each learns the truth about what, and who, matters to them the most.

Alice Austen won the John Cassavetes Award for her debut film Give Me Liberty (writer/producer). She is a past resident of the Royal Court Theatre and her internationally produced plays include Animal Farm (Steppenwolf Theatre) among others. She studied creative writing under Seamus Heaney at Harvard, where she received her JD, after which she moved to Brussels and lived on Place Brugmann.