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Come listen to three local authors discuss what they wrote, why they wrote it, and how they chose their respective subjects at “First Person, Second Story,” presented by AHA! at Cork in Downtown New Bedford on Oct. 20 from 7 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $35 and will include wine and tapas.
Baker Books will be on hand to sell books for signing. NPR’s Naomi Arenberg will serve as host and moderator of the evening.
The night of personal narrative features readings and discussions from authors: Dawn Tripp of Westport, Kim Marcus of Dartmouth, and Joan Leegant of Newton.
The Stories:
Tripp, who won the Massachusetts Book Award in fiction, will discuss her most recent novel, “Game of Secrets”— a Boston Globe bestseller that is set in Westport, Mass.
In 1957, Jane Weld was 11 when her father Luce, a petty thief, disappeared. His skiff was found drifting near the marsh, empty except for his hunting coat and a box of shotgun shells. No one in Westport, Mass. knew for sure what happened until, three years later, his skull rolled out of a gravel bank near Rt. 88. There were rumors he had been murdered by the jealous husband of his mistress, Ada Varick.
Now, half a century later, Jane is still searching for the truth. Jane and Ada meet for a casual Friday game of Scrabble that soon transforms into a cat-and-mouse game of words long left unspoken, dark secrets best left untold.
Marcus is the author of the young adult novel “Exposed,” selected by Independent Booksellers as a Top Ten Pick recently and was named one of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month.
Liz is Photogirl: sharp, focused, and confident about what she sees through her camera lens. Confident that she and Kate will be best friends forever. But the teenager’s life changes in one blurry night: Kate is avoiding her, and people are looking the other way when she passes in the halls. As the aftershocks from a startling accusation rip through Liz's world, everything she thought she knew about photography, family, friendship, and herself, shifts out of focus. What happens when the picture you see no longer makes sense?
Leegant is the author of “Wherever You Go,” a sweeping, beautiful story that weaves together three lives caught in the grip of a volatile and uncompromising faith. From the winner of the PEN/New England Book Award, the Wallant Award, and Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, comes a gripping novel of contemporary Israel.
Tickets are $35 and only thirty tickets will be sold. Call (508) 996-8253 ext. 205 for tickets, or buy them at Baker Books at 69 State Road, Dartmouth. Cash or check only please. All proceeds will benefit AHA!, a free public celebration of Arts, History and Architecture held downtown New Bedford the second Thursday of each month.
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