Clara S. Lewis in Norwich

Join author Clara S. Lewis for a reading from her new book American Infanticide! Emile Weaver seemed like the perfect college student—a studious, athletic, and popular sorority sister. So why did she kill her newborn baby? "American Infanticide" answers this question by situating Emile’s tragic crime in a long intellectual and social history that reveals why our legal responses to infanticide are so deeply misguided. Clara S. Lewis is a Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Tough on Hate? The Cultural Politics of Hate Crimes and serves as an expert witness for neonaticide cases. She is also Mars and Ivy’s mom.