Book Signing with Janet Sarjeant

Name: Book Signing with Janet Sarjeant
Start: 2025-08-30T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-30T15:30:00-04:00
Location: 4139 Park Rd, Charlotte, NC, United States, North Carolina 28209

Schedule

Sat Aug 30 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

4139 Park Rd, Charlotte, NC, United States, North Carolina 28209 | Charlotte, NC

We want to celebrate Janet Sarjeant on her book, Half Year Half Light, on Saturday, August 30, 2025, at 2 pm. The book is available in the store. We look forward to seeing you at this free event.

Synopsis:
The year is 1969, and things are changing faster than eighteen-year-old Edna Louise Walters can wrap her head around. Eddy is restless, coiled tightly inside, and full of desires. She is drawn to a boy who is also on the edge of adulthood as he’s drawn into the environment of drag racing. Meanwhile, the world is charged with overwhelming events and revolution, and even in her small Virginia town, Eddy feels the currents running through her like electricity as she completes her final semester of high school and prepares for what lies ahead.
Covering some of 1969’s most iconic moments, from the Beatles’ infamous rooftop concert, to space launches, to the University of California-Berkley’s Bloody Thursday, this smartly written narrative delves into the complex emotions of approaching adulthood during one of modern history’s most exciting and tumultuous years.

Author Bio:
Janet Vass Sarjeant has long known small towns in Virginia, having been intimately acquainted with several of them. After a BA in English from Roanoke College and an MA in English from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, she taught at Central Piedmont Community College for twenty-five years. Her first book, Deep Calls Unto Deep, a biography of three towering presences in her life, was published in 2021. In 2024, she finished this novel set in 1969 concerning life in small-town America and the world. Janet has lived for fifty years in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband Dale. Her sons and their families live nearby.