October 28, 7pm

The short story collection The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck has been selected by the Greenwich community for Greenwich Reads Together 2025. Greenwich Reads Together (GRT) is a community-wide reading experience which engages all of Greenwich in exploring a designated book, culminating in an author visit this fall. GRT is sponsored by the Friends of Greenwich Library. The Greenwich Alliance is a member of the GRT steering committee along with the Greenwich Library, Greenwich Public & Independent Schools and other organizations in town. For more information about the book, reading/discussion guides and companion book suggestions for young readers, visit www.greenwichreadstogether.org.

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GREENWICH READS TOGETHER 2025 The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck A stunning collection of interconnected stories set in New England, exploring how the past is often misunderstood and how history, family, heartache and desire can echo across the centuries. In twelve stories set across three centuries, The History of Sound examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss are entwined and transformed over generations. In Ben Shattuck’s ingenious collection, each story has a companion story, which contains revelations about the previous, paired story. Mysteries and murders are revealed, history is refracted and deep emotional connections are woven through characters and families. Written with breathtaking humanity and humor, The History of Sound is a love letter to New England, a radiant conversation between past and present, and a moving meditation on the abiding search for home.

GRT Author, Ben Shattuck Ben Shattuck is the author of Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, which was a New Yorker Best Book of 2022, a Wall Street Journal Best Book of Spring, a New York Times Best Book of Summer, a New England Indie Best Seller and was nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award. Ben is a graduate of the Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop and winner of PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and a Pushcart Prize. He lives with his wife and daughter on the coast of Massachusetts, where he owns and runs the oldest general store in America, built in 1793. He is also the director and founder of the Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency.