Meet Sibylline Authors at LitCrawl Sebastopol
Come to LitCrawl Sebastopol on Saturday, May 17 for a panel discussion on “Writing from Truth in Fiction & Memoir” with Sibylline authors Christine Walker, Samantha Rose, Claudia H. Long, Susannah Kennedy, and Jordan Rosenfeld. The panel is at 3:30PM at the Community Market in the Barlow, with a book signing at 1:30 PM at Copperfield’s Books. LitCrawl Sebastopol is a program of Sebastopol Center for the Arts and LitQuake.
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About Tap Dancing at the Bluebird:
In an epic coming-of-age story, Mattie and Kip tap dance and ride the rails during the Great Depression. A perceived betrayal and a train crash separate the friends for a lifetime. Is it ever too late to love and forgive?
About Giving Up the Ghost:
Samantha Rose, a New York Times best-selling ghostwriter steps out of the shadows to unravel the mystery surrounding her mother’s suicide. Raw, resilient, and with surprising humor, the book explores mental health, the love between mothers and daughters and how we can release our inner ghosts and write a new story for ourselves.
About Murder without a Duck:
Looking for a reprieve from her life, a newly divorced and temporarily suspended lawyer relocates to the small town of Simpato in Northern California to her parents’ old home, vacant since their deaths, only to stumble into a murder that plunges Sal into the epicenter of the town’s long held secrets.
About Reading Jane: A Daughter’s Memoir:
A gripping memoir that shows what freedom looks like when we choose to examine the uncomfortable past
Jane is to the world a charismatic personality—opinionated, an inner-city teacher and public activist, a lover of Italy, proud and successful—who thrives on a carefully crafted life narrative. Susannah, her beautiful only daughter and her intended protégé, senses the stricter, darker truth, and fights to resist the control imposed on her by her mother’s narcissistic tale, especially as Susannah becomes a mother herself.
But then Jane at 75, healthy and fit, chooses suicide, leaving her daughter with grief and the unwelcome gift of 45 years of hidden diaries. Daring to “read” Jane after her death is like unlatching Pandora’s Box. For a year, Susannah twists and turns to the truths she uncovers, comparing what she remembers with what her mother put down in words. This process, accompanied by strange physical symptoms—memories awakening in the body—forces an understanding, allowing Susannah to calm herself and work through each of them, finding ultimately that truth wins out. As Susannah Kennedy re-lives her life through her mother’s eyes, she grapples with the ties between mothers and daughters and the choices parents make.
About Forged in Grace:
Grace Jensen survived a horrific fire at age 15, the flames changing her: scarring her body and mind, but also giving her a strange new ability. When her secretive childhood friend reappears in town; Grace may be able to solve the mystery of what really happened the night of the fire.
About Women in Red:
Dead-broke single mother Stella Russo, daughter of a world-class prima ballerina, has nearly given up on her own professional aspirations when a dazzling impromptu stunt by a mysterious troupe reminds her just how empowering performing onstage can be, inspiring her to join up. Drawn into the dark, dangerous, and dramatically sexy underworld of dance, Stella must handle the troupe’s secrets along with her desire for a family of her own.
