Author Event: Dawn Tripp

Name: Author Event: Dawn Tripp
Start: 2025-06-24T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 415 Brooks Street, Wake Forest, NC, United States, North Carolina 27587

Schedule

Tue, 24 Jun, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

415 Brooks Street, Wake Forest, NC, United States, North Carolina 27587 | Wake Forest, NC

Page 158 Books is excited to welcome author, Dawn Tripp, to celebrate her novel, Jackie -- out June 17th in paperback.
The world has divided my life into three:
Life with Jack
Life with Onassis
Life as a woman who goes to work because she wants to.
My life is all of these things, and it is none of these things.
Jackie is a novel about a woman who was deeply private, and who forged an historic legacy out of grief and courage, and who shaped history, even as she was living it. It is the story of a love affair, a complicated marriage, the creation of a family, and the fracturing of identity that comes in the wake of violence.
When Jackie meets the charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy in Georgetown, she is twenty-one and dreaming of France. She has won an internship at Vogue. Kennedy, she thinks, is not her kind of adventure: “Too American. Too good-looking. Too boy.” Yet she is drawn to his mind, his humor, his drive. The chemistry between them ignites. During the White House years, the love between two independent people deepens. Then, a motorcade in Dallas: “Three and a half seconds—that’s all it was—a slivered instant between the first shot, which missed the car, and the second, which did not. . . . A hypnotic burst of sunlight off her bracelet as she waved.”
This vivid, exquisitely written novel is at once a captivating work of the imagination and a window into the world of a woman who led many lives: Jackie, Jacks, Jacqueline, Miss Bouvier, Mrs. Kennedy, Jackie O.
Dawn Tripp’s novel Georgia was a national bestseller, finalist for the New England Book Award, and winner of the Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature. She is also the author of three previous novels: Game of Secrets, Moon Tide, and The Season of Open Water, which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction.