Author and former Lawrence resident Jamie Quatro will give a reading from her acclaimed book of short stories Thursday at the Raven, 6 E. Seventh St.

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At the 7 p.m. event, Quatro will read from her 2013 book “I Want to Show You More,” a collection of 15 tales with a common thread. The book has received positive reviews from both The New Yorker and the New York Times Book Review, which called it “an obsessive first collection that feels like a fifth or sixth. … Strange, thrilling, and disarmingly honest.”

The collection was named a Top 10 Book of 2013 by Dwight Garner in the New York Times and a Favorite Book of 2013 by James Wood in The New Yorker.

According to a news release, “stories range from the traditional to the fabulist as they expose lives torn between spirituality and sexuality in the New American South.”

The event is free and open to the public.