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SUMMARY:Meet Grandparenting Experts and Authors at a Virtual 3rd Thursday Special Event!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special Third Thursday event virtually\, with California authors and grandparenting/mindfulness experts Pam Siegel to talk about how we can\, as parents and especially grandparents\, support the kiddos during this back-to-school time. \nWhether attending live or virtual classes\, whether you’re able to get together with family in person or online\, Pam and Leslie offer up useful tips on how to get and keep connected! \nTheir book\, Grandparenting: Renew\, Relive\, Rejoice\, is available from Main Street Reads or our bookshop warehouse. It’s a super colorful\, easy to navigate book filled with 52 ways to mindfully connect and grow with your grandchildren. \nLearn more at their insightful website and bring your questions to the meeting – link details below! \nJoin Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85613056099?pwd=eU1kS25NdWZjM0xpREk0RW82eVdTZz09\nMeeting ID: 856 1305 6099\nPasscode: 202020 \nPam Siegel\n\nPam Siegel MPH\, MFT is a licensed marriage family therapist in private practice in West Los Angeles. She has a master’s in health education from UCLA and an additional master’s in counseling from California State University\, Northridge. She is a certified mindfulness therapist and implements meditation and other mindfulness tools to help her clients with a variety of issues. For over twelve years\, Pam has led a weekly mindfulness support group. She is actively involved in the mindfulness and yoga community and has her own daily practice and website\, www.pamsiegel.com. \nLeslie Zinberg\n\nLeslie Zinberg has a BS in elementary education from the University of Texas at Austin\, and has co-written two successful parenting books\, The Pink and Blue Baby Pages\, written in 1995\, and The Pink and Blue Toddler Pages\, written in 1999. Both books were featured in national publicity campaigns\, with appearances on the Today Show\, QVC\, and local television and radio segments across the country. Leslie is the cofounder of the grandparent website\, www.grandparentslink.com.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/meet-grandparenting-experts-and-authors-at-a-virtual-3rd-thursday-special-event/
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Reading,Third Thursday,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Early Departures with Justin A. Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, August 20th from 7:00 pm  – 8:00 pm for an enlightening discussion with Justin A. Reynolds about his novel\, Early Departures. Email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com for your link and password to attend\, and books can be ordered from us for pickup in store or click the title link above to grab from our Bookshop warehouse! \n\n\n\nJustin A. Reynolds\, author of Opposite of Always\, delivers another smart\, funny\, and powerful stand-alone YA contemporary novel\, with a speculative twist in which Jamal’s best friend is brought back to life after a freak accident…but they only have a short time together before he will die again. Jamal’s best friend\, Q\, doesn’t know he’s about to die…again. He also doesn’t know that Jamal tried to save his life\, rescuing him from drowning only to watch Q die later in the hospital. Even more complicated\, Jamal and Q haven’t been best friends in two years—not since Jamal’s parents died in a car accident\, leaving him and his sister to carry on without them. Grief swallowed Jamal whole\, and he blamed Q for causing the accident. \nBut what if Jamal could have a second chance? An impossible chance that would grant him the opportunity to say goodbye to his best friend? A new health-care technology allows Q to be reanimated—brought back to life like the old Q again. But there’s a catch: Q will only reanimate for a short time before he dies…forever. \nJamal is determined to make things right with Q\, but grief is hard to shake. And he can’t tell Q why he’s suddenly trying to be friends with him again. Because Q has no idea that he died\, and Q’s mom is not about to let anyone ruin the miracle by telling him. How can Jamal fix his friendship with Q if he can’t tell him the truth? \nJustin A. Reynolds has always wanted to be a writer. Opposite of Always\, his debut novel\, was an Indies Introduce selection and a School Library Journal Best Book\, has been translated into seventeen languages\, and is being developed for film with Paramount Players. He lives in northeast Ohio with his family. You can find him at www.justinareynolds.com.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-early-departures-with-justin-a-reynolds/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200818T150000
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: How to Argue With a Racist w/ Adam Rutherford
DESCRIPTION:Join us Tuesday\, Aug 18th\, from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm for a candid chat with Adam Rutherford and his important work\, How to Argue with a Racist. Email us at mainstreetreads@gmail.com for the link and password to this event. Books can be ordered for pickup in store or click the link in the title above to grab from our warehouse bookshop!\n \n\n\n\nRacist pseudoscience is on the rise—fueling hatred\, feeding nationalism\, and seeping into our discourse on everything from sports to intelligence. Even the well-intentioned repeat stereotypes based on “science\,” because cutting-edge genetics are hard to grasp—and all too easy to distort. Paradoxically\, misconceptions are multiplying amid today’s unprecedented surge of research on human genetics. We’ve never had a clearer picture of who we are and where we come from\, and the science\, when accurately understood\, is a powerful and definitive ally against racism. But not nearly enough of these findings have made their way into the casual conversations we have about race. \nThis penetrating guide shows us how being a responsible and enlightened citizen on the matter of race today requires us to know what modern genetics actually can and can’t tell us about human difference. Racial categories still vexing our societies do not align with observable genetic differences—and those differences are\, in fact\, so minute that they serve as evidence of our commonality. \nAdam Rutherford is a geneticist\, science writer\, and broadcaster. He studied genetics at University College London\, and during his PhD on the developing eye\, he was part of a team that identified the first known genetic cause of a form of childhood blindness. As well as writing for the science pages of The Guardian\, he has written and presented many award-winning series and programs for the BBC\, including the flagship weekly Radio 4 program Inside Science\, The Cell for BBC Four\, and Playing God (on the rise of synthetic biology) for the leading science series Horizon. He is also the author of How to Argue With a Racist\, an incisive guide to what modern genetics can and can’t tell us about human difference; The Book of Humans\, a new evolutionary history that explores the profound paradox of the “human animal”; A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived\, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction; and Creation\, on the origin of life and synthetic biology\, which was short-listed for the Wellcome Book Prize.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-how-to-argue-with-a-racist-w-adam-rutherford/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Yellow House with Sarah M. Broom in Conversation with Imani Perry
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday August 13th from 7:00 pm  – 8:00 pm for a discussion about The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom! Make sure to email us for your confirming link and event password!\n\n\nTHE YELLOW HOUSE: Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction \nA brilliant\, haunting\, and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family\, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East. \nIn 1961\, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant—the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed\, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah’s father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died\, six months after Sarah’s birth\, the Yellow House would become Ivory Mae’s thirteenth and most unruly child. \nA book of great ambition\, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother’s struggle against a house’s entropy\, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts\, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives\, guided deftly by one of its native daughters\, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan\, pride\, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the “Big Easy” of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised\, The Yellow House is a brilliant memoir of place\, class\, race\, the seeping rot of inequality\, and the internalized shame that often follows. It is a transformative\, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity\, authority\, and power. \nWinner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction\, Sarah M. Broom has also published her work in The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Oxford American\, and O\, The Oprah Magazine\, among others. A native New Orleanian\, she earned her Masters in Journalism from the University of California\, Berkeley. She has been awarded a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant\, and fellowships at Djerassi Resident Artists Program and The MacDowell Colony. She lives in Harlem. \nImani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and a faculty associate with the Programs in Law and Public Affairs\, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Jazz Studies. She is the author of 6 books\, including Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry\, which received the Pen Bograd-Weld Award for Biography\, The Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award for outstanding work in literary scholarship\, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction and the Shilts-Grahn Award for nonfiction from the Publishing Triangle. Looking for Lorraine was also named a 2018 notable book by the New York Times\, and an a honor book by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. It was a finalist for the African American Intellectual History Society Paul Murray Book Prize. Her book May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem\, winner of the 2019 American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Book Award for the best book in American Studies\, the Hurston Wright Award for Nonfiction\, and finalist for an NAACP Image Award in Nonfiction. Her most recent book is: Breathe: A Letter to My Sons (Beacon Press\, 2019) which was a finalist for the 2020 Chautauqua Prize and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Excellence in Nonfiction.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/the-yellow-house-with-sarah-m-broom-in-conversation-with-imani-perry/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200811T170000
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Rules for Being Dead w/ Kim Powers in Conversation w/ Louis Bayard
DESCRIPTION:Join us Tuesday Aug 11th from 5:00 pm  – 6:00 pm for a conversation with author Kim Powers about the August 4th release of the Rules for Being Dead. Email or message us to get your confirming link and password to attend free\, and don’t forget to order a book from us for pickup in the store or at the link to the book on Bookshop\, our warehouse site!\n \n\n\n\nIt’s the late 1960s in McKinney\, Texas. At the downtown theater and the local drive-in\, movies—James Bond\, My Fair Lady\, Alfie\, and Doctor Zhivago—feed the dreams and obsessions of ten-year-old Clarke who loves Audrey\, Elvis\, his family\, and the handsome boy in the projector booth. Then Clarke loses his beloved mother. And no one will tell him how she died. No one will tell her either. She is floating above the trees and movie screens of McKinney\, trapped between life and death\, searching for a glimpse of her final moments on this earth. The shattering answer haunts Rules for Being Dead\, Kim Powers’ darkly humorous and incredibly moving novel. An unlikely love child of Mark Childress’ Crazy in Alabama and Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones\, this book pays homage to the movies of the 1960s and vividly conjures the machinations of small-town Texas with a wicked sense of humor and an unexpected tenderness. Native Texan Kim Powers brings a steady hand to all proceedings\, including a ghostly mother\, an evil stepmother\, a clueless father\, and a full cast of misfits–all orchestrated within a lively plot which is anything but predictable. \nKim Powers is a two-time Emmy winner and author of the novels Dig Two Graves and Capote in Kansas\, as well as the critically acclaimed memoir The History of Swimming\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Book and Lambda Literary Award finalist for Best Memoir of the Year. He also wrote the screenplay for the festival-favorite indie film Finding North and the new play Sidekicked\, a “one broad comedy” about Vivian Vance. Powers is the Senior Writer for ABC’s 20/20\, part of the team that has received an unprecedented three consecutive Edward R. Murrow Awards. A native Texan\, he received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. In 2007\, he was selected by Out Magazine for the influential “Out 100” list. He lives in Manhattan and Asbury Park\, NJ. \nIn the words of the New York Times\, Louis Bayard “reinvigorates historical fiction\,” rendering the past “as if he’d witnessed it firsthand.” His acclaimed historical novels include national bestseller Courting Mr. Lincoln\, Roosevelt’s Beast\, The School of Night\, The Black Tower\, The Pale Blue Eye and Mr. Timothy\, as well as the highly praised young-adult novel\, Lucky Strikes. A New York Times Notable author\, he has been nominated for both the Edgar and Dagger awards\, and his story\, “Banana Triangle Six\,” was chosen for The Best American Mystery Stories 2018. His reviews and articles have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Los Angeles Times and Salon. An instructor at George Washington University\, he is a board member for the PEN Faulkner Foundation and the author of the popular Downton Abbey recaps for the New York Times.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-rules-for-being-dead-w-kim-powers-in-conversation-w-louis-bayard/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Some Go Home - Odie Lindsey in Conversation with Chanelle Benz
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thu Aug 6th 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm for an enchanting conversation about Some Go Home by Odie Lindsey. Email us for your event link and the password\, delivered to you on the day of the event: \nSome Go Home is a searing debut novel following three generations fractured by murder in fictional Pitchlynn\, Mississippi that complicates notions of race\, class\, history\, and identity. \n\n\n\nColleen—an Iraq war veteran turned Mississippi homemaker—must reckon with a decades-old murder that has haunted her community\, her family\, and herself. When pregnancy brings her buried trauma to the surface\, Colleen works hard to keep her deployment behind her. Her husband\, Derby\, is in turn preoccupied with the long-overdue retrial of his father\, Hare Hobbs\, for a Civil Rights-era murder. Central to Some Go Home is the town’s showpiece\, antebellum estate. More monument than manor\, it is both the scene of the murder and the proposed jewel of gentrified Pitchlynn. For Colleen and the others\, all of whom seek healing\, the estate comes to embody various paths to redemption—whether razed\, restored to a perceived greatness\, or stripped of all recognition. As the trial draws near\, questions of Hare’s guilt only magnify these tensions of class and race\, tied always to the land and who can call it their own. \nInformed by his work editing the Mississippi Encyclopedia\, Lindsey’s prose is insightful and wonderfully detailed\, steeped in the same cultural history the characters are forced to confront in the book. Part literary saga and part cultural provocation\, Some Go Home is a richly textured\, explosive depiction of both the American South and our larger cultural legacy. \nOdie Lindsey is the author of We Come to Our Senses: Stories. He received an NEA-funded fellowship for veterans\, holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, and is writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University in Nashville\, Tennessee. \nChanelle Benz has published work inGuernica\, Granta.com\,The New York Times\,Electric Literature\,The American Reader\,Fence\, and is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize. Her story collectionThe Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Deadwas published in 2017 by Ecco/HarperCollins. It was named a Best Book of 2017 byThe San Francisco Chronicleand one ofElectric Literature‘s 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2017. It was also shortlisted for the 2018 Saroyan Prize and longlisted for the 2018 PEN/Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the 2017 Story Prize. Her novelThe Gone Deadwas published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2019 and was aNew York Times Book ReviewEditor’s Choice and a Tonight Show Summer Reads Finalist. It was longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and longlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. It was also named a best new book of the summer byO\, The Oprah Magazine\,Time\,Southern Living\, andNylon. She lives in Memphis where she teaches at Rhodes College.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-some-go-home-odie-lindsey-in-conversation-with-chanelle-benz/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Lara Prescott and The Secrets We Kept
DESCRIPTION:Wrapping up July will be a special talk with Lara Prescott about the new hit release of The Secrets We Kept\, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick! \nLara Prescott Thursday\, JULY 30 / 7:00 PM\nLara Prescott received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas\, Austin. She was previously an animal protection advocate and a political campaign operative. Her stories have appeared in The Southern Review\, The Hudson Review\, Crazyhorse\, Day One\, and Tin House Flash Fridays. She won the 2016 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize for the first chapter of The Secrets We Kept. She lives in Austin\, Texas. \nThe Secrets We Kept\nPaperback: Vintage | June 30\, 2020 | 9780525566106 \nA thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies\, of love and duty\, and of sacrifice–inspired by the real-life CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago. \nAt the height of the Cold War\, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR\, where no one dare publish it\, and help Pasternak’s magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world–using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men. Irina is a novice and\, under Sally’s tutelage\, quickly learns how to blend in\, make drops\, and invisibly ferry classified documents. \nThe Secrets We Kept combines a legendary literary love story–the decades-long affair between Pasternak and his mistress and muse\, Olga Ivinskaya\, who inspired Zhivago‘s heroine\, Lara–with a narrative about two women empowered to lead lives of extraordinary intrigue and risk. From Pasternak’s country estate outside Moscow to the brutalities of the Gulag\, from Washington\, DC\, to Paris and Milan\, The Secrets We Kept captures a watershed moment in the history of literature–told with soaring emotional intensity and captivating historical detail. And at the center of this unforgettable debut is the powerful belief that a piece of art can change the world.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-secrets-we-kept/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: SA Crosby's Blacktop Wasteland (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:S. A. Cosby Tuesday\, July 28 / 5:00 PM\nJoin us Tuesday for a fascinating virtual talk with Shawn A. Cosby from Southeastern Virginia\, now residing in Gloucester\, Virginia. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. His short story “The Grass Beneath My Feet” won the Anthony Award for best short story in 2019. He is also the author of My Darkest Prayer and Brotherhood of the Blade. His writing is influenced by his experience as a bouncer\, construction worker\, retail manager and for six hours a mascot for a major fast food chain inside the world’s hottest costume. When he isn’t crafting tales of murder and mayhem he assists the dedicated staff at J.K. Redmind Funeral home as a mortician’s assistant. He is an avid hiker and is also known as one hell of a chess player. \nBlacktop Wasteland\nFlatiron Books | July 14\, 2020 | 9781250252685 \n“The gritty\, brutal narrative is complemented by the author’s sublime use of sensory description and regional imagery. In addition\, the epic\, jaw-dropping chase sequences that figure prominently are reason alone to read this pedal-to-the-metal but profoundly sorrowful novel. Cosby is definitely a writer to watch.\n–Publishers Weekly \n“We’re in Elmore Leonard land… Bug’s got a conscience not typical of the thriller genre\, but other than that\, this novel recalls almost perfectly the classic heist thriller in the vein of Richard Stark’s “Parker” novels. It’ll go like hot cakes.”\n–Library Journal\, starred review \nCosby never misses a note in this high-energy read\, from Bug’s under-the-hood wizardry to the actual driving to the sensitive character building\, which gives depth to the entire cast\, including Bug’s hapless yet treacherous associates. A superb work of crime fiction\, uncompromisingly noir but deeply human\, too\, much like Lou Berney’s November Road.\n– ALA Booklist\, starred review \nBeauregard Montage knows how to fix any car—but that would be selling him short. He knows how to make an ordinary American car something that flies\, something that\, under his hands on the wheel\, can take its driver places. He came to that knowledge through heritage\, love and the lure of dangerous getaways. But he is in a town that has no call for those skills. \nHe’s got a repair shop that is floundering\, a wife and two sons\, a daughter from an earlier time\, and the car he inherited from his father\, a Plymouth Duster. Late at night\, when he races the car ten miles out from the fairgrounds in the back road illegal races\, he feels most like himself. He feels reconnected to the part of him that has no part in this other life he knows he needs to live for the people he loves. It’s always there though\, just below the surface\, that desire for one more getaway drive\, one more adrenaline-boosting race against the cops.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-sa-crosbys-blacktop-wasteland-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reader Meet Writer: Jill McCorkle's Hieroglyphics (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Jill McCorkle Thursday\, July 23 / 7:00 PM Reader Meet Writer\nJill McCorkle’s first two novels were released simultaneously when she was just out of college\, and the New York Times called her “a born novelist.” Since then\, she has published six novels and four collections of short stories\, and her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories several times\, as well as The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Five of her books have been New York Times Notable books\, and her most recent novel\, Life After Life\, was a New York Times bestseller. She has received the New England Booksellers Award\, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature\, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. She has written for the New York Times Book Review\, the Washington Post\, the Boston Globe\, Garden & Gun\, the Atlantic\, and other publications. She was a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction at Harvard\, where she also chaired the department of creative writing. She is currently a faculty member of the Bennington College Writing Seminars and is affiliated with the MFA program at North Carolina State University. \nHieroglyphics\nA mesmerizing novel about the burden of secrets carried across generations. Lil and Frank married young\, launched into courtship when they bonded over how they both—suddenly\, tragically— lost a parent when they were children. Over time\, their marriage grew and strengthened\, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they’d lost prematurely. \nNow\, after many years in Boston\, they’ve retired to North Carolina. There\, Lil\, determined to leave a history for their children\, sifts through letters and notes and diary entries— perhaps revealing more secrets than Frank wants their children to know. Meanwhile\, Frank has become obsessed with what might have been left behind at the house he lived in as a boy on the outskirts of town\, where a young single mother\, Shelley\, is just trying to raise her son with some sense of normalcy. Frank’s repeated visits to Shelley’s house begin to trigger memories of her own family\, memories that she’d hoped to keep buried. Because\, after all\, not all parents are ones you wish to remember. \nHieroglyphics reveals the difficulty of ever really knowing the intentions and dreams and secrets of the people who raised you. In her deeply layered and masterful novel\, Jill McCorkle deconstructs and reconstructs what it means to be a father or a mother\, and what it means to be a child piecing together the world around us\, a child learning to make sense of the hieroglyphics of history and memory.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/reader-meet-writer-jill-mccorkles-hieroglyphics-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Main Street Reads\, 115 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, SC\, 29483\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Reader Meet Writer,Virtual Author Event
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