Trinity Episcopal Church
322nd Street
Excelsior, MN 55331
United States
$20 (plus tax and fee) via Eventbrite.
Join Excelsior Bay Books for a night of literature, laughter, and fun! As part of Literature Lovers’ Night Out, Faith Sullivan will read from her newest novel, Ruby & Roland, alongside authors Joshilyn Jackson, Katherine Reay, and Kassandra Montag. Tickets are $20 (plus tax and fee), which includes a $10 book coupon for this event.
Faith Sullivan
Faith Sullivan is the author of many novels, including Gardenias, The Cape Ann, What a Woman Must Do, and, most recently, Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse. An indefatigable champion of literary culture and her fellow writers, she has visited with hundreds of book clubs and lives in Minneapolis.
One winter’s night, Ruby Drake’s beloved parents perish in an accident—and suddenly, Ruby finds herself penniless and nearly alone in the world.
When Celia Canby and her husband are killed in a car accident, her aunt Kate and cousin Harriet are left to raise Celia’s daughter. Ten years later, it’s the 1950s, and the three generations of women are being drawn apart by life, loss, and new love.
Widowed, penniless, responsible for her beloved baby boy, and subject to the small-town gossip of Harvester, Minnesota—Nell Stillman’s lot is not an easy one. Yet she finds strength in lasting friendships and in the rich inner life awakened by the novels she loves.
A month after the United States joins World War II, nine-year-old Lark, her mother, Arlene, and her Aunt Betty migrate to San Diego from Minnesota, leaving Lark’s gambling father behind. Moving into a housing project with uprooted families from all over the country, Lark is an attentive observer of the neighborhood as she adjusts to her new life.