Author Kirsten Miller in conversation with Laura Beth Vietor | LULA DEAN'S

Author of The Change Kirsten Miller will be at Bards Alley Bookshop to discuss her newest release LULA DEAN'S LITTLE LIBRARY OF BANNED BOOKS with moderator Laura Beth Vietor (@LBtheLoverofBooks). Lula Dean's is a provocative, hilarious, and wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.

Kirsten will be signing copies of her books after her discussion and Q&A, and folks are encouraged to reserve a copy ahead of time at bardsalley.square.site.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Beverly Underwood and her arch enemy, Lula Dean, live in the tiny town of Troy, Georgia, where they were born and raised. Now Beverly is on the school board, and Lula has become a local celebrity by embarking on mission to rid the public libraries of all inappropriate books—none of which she’s actually read. To replace the “pornographic” books she’s challenged at the local public library, Lula starts her own lending library in front of her home: a cute wooden hutch with glass doors and neat rows of the worthy literature that she’s sure the town’s readers need.

What Lula doesn’t know is that a local troublemaker has stolen her wholesome books, removed their dust jackets, and restocked Lula’s library with banned books: literary classics, gay romances, Black history, witchy spell books, Judy Blume novels, and more. One by one, neighbors who borrow books from Lula Dean’s library find their lives changed in unexpected ways. Finally, one of Lula Dean’s enemies discovers the library and decides to turn the tables on her, just as Lula and Beverly are running against each other to replace the town’s disgraced mayor.

That’s when all the townspeople who’ve been borrowing from Lula’s library begin to reveal themselves. That's when the showdown that’s been brewing between Beverly and Lula will roil the whole town...and change it forever.

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