Julia Park Tracey to Talk All Things Silence at Books Inc in Alameda, CA
“Tracey, the author of The Bereaved (2023), is a remarkable writer, and this book is another triumph. The character of Silence is a wonderful creation who endures a life suffering, doubt, and blazing anger, and readers will be invested in her fate.”
—Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW
Join Julia Park Tracey, author of the new novel Silence, will be discussing all things historical fiction, her new novel, and more at Books Inc. in Alameda, CA on October 17th at 7pm.
EVENT ADDRESS:
Books Inc.
1344 Park Street
Alameda, CA 94501
For more information, please visit the Books Inc. event page: https://booksinc.net/events/calendar/2024/10
Order your copy of Silence here.
About Silence:
After three grievous losses, Puritan woman Silence Marsh dares to question God aloud in the church, and that blasphemy lands her in trouble—she is silenced for a year by the powers that govern. Broken in heart and spirit, Silence learns to mime and sign, but it isn’t until a new Boston doctor comes to her backward Cape Cod village that she begins to hope again. Rather than treating Silence with bleeding or leeches, Dr. Greenleaf prescribes fresh air, St. John’s Word, long walks—and reading.
Silence has half a hope of getting through her year of punishment when the cry of witchcraft poisons the village. Colonial Massachusetts, still reeling from the Salem Witch Trials just 20 years before. Now, after they demanded her silence, she is called to witness at a witchcraft trial—or be accused herself.
A whiff of sulfur and witchcraft shadows this literary Puritan tale of loss and redemption, based on this bestselling historical fiction author’s own ancestor, her seventh great-grandmother.
About Julia Park Tracey:
Bestselling historical fiction author Julia Park Tracey’s ancestors and their stories have given her a trail to follow from New York and New England to the Deep South and the Pacific Coast. The Bereaved: A Novel, the story of her great, great grandmother’s loss of her children to the orphan train was named in the top 100 indie books published in 2023 by Kirkus Reviews. Silence is the story of another “an-sister,” Silence Greenleaf.
