An Evening LAUNCH Event with Author Allie Tagle-Dokus! In Conversation with Annie Hartnett

Name: An Evening LAUNCH Event with Author Allie Tagle-Dokus! In Conversation with Annie Hartnett
Start: 2025-11-10T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 12 Spruce St., Acton, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01720

Schedule

Mon, 10 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

12 Spruce St., Acton, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01720 | Acton, MA

We love a launch event, especially when it's a debut launch. Please join us as we celebrate the LAUNCH of local debut author Allie Tagle-Dokus' novel, Lucky Girl! Lucky Girl is an exhilarating, darkly funny debut novel about the absurd and fleeting nature of childhood fame, and the ever-evolving desire for family and forgiveness. With lively prose and a rich cast of supporting characters—including a retired parrot actor traumatized by his former career—Lucky Girl is an unparalleled coming-of-age story that explores the sparkling highs and heartbreaking lows of ambition, infamy, and the determination to follow a dream, wherever it might lead.
Allie will be joined in conversation by author Annie Hartnett.
About Allie Tagle-Dokus
Allie Tagle-Dokus is a writer and high school teacher. She received her BFA in writing, literature and publishing from Emerson College and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She currently lives in Gardner, Massachusetts, with her husband and dog.
About Annie Hartnett
Annie Hartnett is the author of the best-selling novel The Road to Tender Hearts, Unlikely Animals, which won the Julia Ward Howe Prize for fiction and was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and Rabbit Cake, a finalist for the New England Book Award and a Kirkus Reviews best book of the year. Hartnett has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Associates of the Boston Public Library. Along with the writer Tessa Fontaine, she co-runs the Accountability Workshops for writers, helping them commit to routines and embrace the long, slow, joyful, terrible process of doing the work. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, daughter, and dog.