Author Kisner explores high school angst in virtual event

Everybody knows that high school is a rite of passage. Yet for many students these days, that particular rite has been disrupted by COVID-19.

Slowly but gradually, though, students are returning to in-person class sessions. And just in time to address that situation comes the latest Virtual Northwest Passages Forum.

At 4 p.m. on Thursday, author Adrienne Kisner will present her latest novel “Six Angry Girls.” Described as “a story of mock trial, feminism, and the inherent power found in a pair of knitting needles,” Kisner’s novel tells the story of a high school senior who faces a number of crises, from loss of her boyfriend to getting passed over by “the college of her dreams.”

Kisner is the author of “Dear Rachel Maddow,” her debut novel that won a 2016 PEN New England Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award and was one of YALSA’s 2019 picks for Best Fiction for Young Adults. Her second novel, "The Confusion of Laurel Graham," was released in June of 2019.

“ ‘Six Angry Girls’ … is a hilarious and hard-to-put-down story about girls fighting for inclusivity using the strong feminist tradition of knitting protests,” reviewer Bobbie Peyton wrote for the Seattle Book Review. “Kisner has created some smart, defiant, and very real female characters – girls you’d want to bring with you to a courthouse yarn bombing.”

To request tickets to the free event, click here.