Author’s Night
Continues with Suzanne Kelly
Friends of the
Greenville Public Library’s Author’s Night continues with Suzanne
Kelly on Friday March 21st at Montage in downtown Greenville. Suzanne
will discuss and read from her delightful new novel Stolen Child,
recently published by Bottom Dog Press. Suzanne describes the novel
as a coming of age story of a Irish American girl set on the eve of
the election of JFK in 1960. It has been nominated for a Pushcart
Prize.
Author Katrina
Kittle’s review reads “Suzanne Kelly's Stolen Child will steal
your heart. This novel captures the intri-cacies and confusion of
religion, politics, and family conflict all through the eyes and
logic of a child. Sweet, struggling Lucy is right up there with Scout
on my list of favorite child narrators. Warning: this novel will
steal your time and all commitment to other obligations too. Once you
open it, nothing else will matter but seeing it through to the
beautiful, moving end.”
Suzanne was raised in
suburban Kansas City and has long had an interest in the history of
the Irish in America as reflected in songs and stories passed from
generation to generation. In her travels she has been fascinated and
amused by some of the commonalities among the Irish in America and
those in Ireland, proving the truth of Gaelic lore that "one
beetle recognizes another." Having worked as an Assistant Ohio
Attorney General and for an online legal publisher, Suzanne currently
enjoys her position as Lecturer of Law at Wright State University.
She lives in Dayton with her husband, poet David Garrison.
As always doors open
at 6:00 and the program starts at 7:00. Enjoy the delicious deli and
desserts available to buy as well as the great music by J.R. Price
and Bill Westfall - who are known to break into some mean blues as
the evening progresses. Come early and bring a friend!
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