Aug 9 – Fog by Kathryn Scanlan

Twenty years ago Kathryn Scanlan acquired a diary at a public estate auction. It was kept by Cora E. Lacy, an eighty-six-year-old woman living in a small Illinois town, from 1968 to 1972. Scanlan began to compulsively read and reread the stranger’s diary. In the years following she edited, arranged, and rearranged the diarists’ words into the composition that is ’Aug 9 – Fog’. First published in 2019, this is the book’s UK debut. Scanlan, also author of ’The Dominant Animal’ and ’Kick the Latch’, hails from Iowa and now lives in Los Angeles. ’Aug 9 – Fog’ includes reflections on quiet resonance, poetic fragments, and tender, artfully crafted prose that captures the fleeting beauty of ordinary life.