A conversation with Mary Alice Monroe

Name: A conversation with Mary Alice Monroe
Start: 2025-05-21T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-21T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 18700 Westwood Drive, Strongsville, OH 44136

Schedule

Wed May 21 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

18700 Westwood Drive, Strongsville, OH 44136 | Strongsville, OH

Join us at our Strongsville Branch for a conversation with Mary Alice Monroe, author of "Where the Rivers Merge."
Register: https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/12988692
Monroe is a New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of 13 novels. Her books have received numerous awards, including the RT Lifetime Achievement Award, Florida Distinguished Author Award, SC Book Festival Award, and the International Fiction Award for Green Fiction. An active conservationist, she lives in the low country of South Carolina where she is at work on her next novel.
Set against the evocative landscape of the 20th-century low country, "Where the Rivers Merge" is a dramatic and sweeping multigenerational family story of unyielding love, lessons learned, profound sacrifices, and the indomitable spirit of a woman determined to persevere in the face of change in order to protect her family legacy and the land she loves.
1908: The Lowcountry of South Carolina is at the cusp of change. Mayfield, the grand estate held for generations by the Rivers family, is the treasured home of young Eliza. Free spirited, she refuses to be confined by societal norms. Instead, Eliza revels in exploring the golden fields and sparkling ponds of Mayfield, observing wildlife, and riding horses.
But her halcyon days are cut short by the Great War, coastal storms, and unexpected challenges to Mayfield. As Eliza battles personal pains and the ravages of family turmoil over the years, her love and devotion for the natural world puts her on a collision course with the patriarchal traditions of a bygone era.
1988: At 88, Eliza is the scion of the Rivers/DeLancey family. She’s fought a lifetime to save her beloved Mayfield and is too independent and committed to quietly retire and leave the fate of the estate to her greedy son. She must make decisions that will assure the future of the land and her family—or watch them both be split apart.
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