An Afternoon with Brooke Lea Foster

Name: An Afternoon with Brooke Lea Foster
Start: 2025-08-23T14:00:00-05:00
Location: South Huntsville Public Library

Schedule

Sat, 23 Aug, 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

South Huntsville Public Library | Huntsville, AL

Join us for a special author event featuring Brooke Lea Foster. Brooke will be discussing her highly anticipated new novel, Our Last Vineyard Summer, which is set to release on July 1, 2025. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from the author herself, learn about the inspiration behind the book, and get your copy signed.

Date/Time: Saturday, August 23rd at 2 p.m.
Location: South Huntsville Public Library (7901-L Bailey Cove Road, Huntsville, AL 35802)

This is a ticketed event.

Presented By: The Huntsville-Madison County Library Foundation and The Snail on the Wall.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
After suffering through her first year of graduate school at Columbia following her senator father’s death, Betsy Whiting is hoping to spend the summer with her boyfriend…and hopefully end the summer as his fiancée. Instead, her mother - a longtime feminist and leader in the women’s movement - calls Betsy and her sisters back home to Martha’s Vineyard, announcing that they need to sell their beloved summer house to pay off their father’s debts.
When Betsy arrives on the island a week later, she must reckon with her strained familial relationships, a long-ago forbidden romance, and the complicated legacy of her parents, who divided the family even as they did good for the world.
Following a dual timeline between 1965 and 1978, and filled with the vibrant, sunlit nostalgia of the cherished New England vacation setting, Our Last Vineyard Summer poignantly captures two generations of women navigating love, loss, and womanhood while trying to find the courage to stand up for what they believe in—and the strength to decide if the home they once loved is worth saving.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Brooke Lea Foster is an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe Magazine, and People, among others. An alumna of The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, she is the author of three nonfiction books and the novels Summer Darlings, On Gin Lane, and All the Summers In Between.