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Reader Meet Writer: The Good Luck Stone with Heather Bell Adams
August 27, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Join us on Thursday, Aug 27th from 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm for an entertaining discussion of Heather Bell Adams’ newly released novel, The Good Luck Stone. Email us at [email protected] for your confirmation link and password to attend. The book is available from us or click the link in the title to grab it from our Bookshop warehouse!
Her desperate decision during World War II changed everything. Now, 70 years later, her secret is unraveling.
At ninety years old, Audrey Thorpe still lives in a historic mansion on palm-tree-lined Victory Drive, determined to retain her independence. But when her health begins to fade, her family hires a part-time caregiver, Laurel. The two women seem to bond-until Audrey disappears. Unbeknownst to Laurel, Audrey has harbored a secret for 70 years, since her time as a nurse in the South Pacific during World War II.
As the story moves between the verdant jungles of the war-torn Philippines and the glitter of modern-day Savannah, Georgia, friendships new and old are tested. Along the way, Audrey grapples with one of life’s heart-wrenching truths: You can only outrun your secrets for so long.
Heather Bell Adams is the author of the novels, Maranatha Road (West Virginia University Press 2017) and The Good Luck Stone (Haywire Books 2020). Maranatha Road won the gold medal for the Southeast region in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and was named to Deep South Magazine‘s Fall/Winter Reading List. The Good Luck Stone, which won the Grassic Short Novel Prize, appears on Deep South Magazine’s Summer Reading List and Most Anticipated Small Press Novel Lists for The Big Other and BuzzFeed.
Heather’s short fiction, which has won the Carrie McCray Memorial Literary Award and James Still Fiction Prize, appears in The Thomas Wolfe Review, Atticus Review, The Petigru Review, Pisgah Review, Pembroke Magazine, Broad River Review, and other journals.
Heather is originally from Hendersonville, North Carolina and now lives in Raleigh where she works as a lawyer. A nationally-recognized scholar on the works of Ron Rash, she also volunteers on the Raleigh Review fiction staff.