Book Talk with Regina Porter

Name: Book Talk with Regina Porter
Start: 2024-10-12T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-12T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 1921 Bull St, Savannah, GA 31401-8031, United States

Schedule

Sat Oct 12 2024 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1921 Bull St, Savannah, GA 31401-8031, United States | Savannah, GA

Join us on October 12 @ 6:30pm!
Author Regina Porter talks about her latest release, The Rich People Have Gone. Jessica Osborne will be in conversation with her.
This event will take place at our Starland location at 1921 Bull st. Beverages will be available for sale at the bar. Paid for tickets include a copy of the book, more books will also be there for purchase. Only books bought from E. Shaver will be signed at this event.
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-with-regina-porter-tickets-991319853367
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Regina Porter has been published in The Harvard Review. An award-winning writer with a background in playwriting, Porter has worked with Playwrights Horizons, the Joseph Papp Theater, New York Stage and Film, the Women's Project, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and Horizon Theatre Company. She has been anthologized in Plays from Woolly Mammoth by Broadway Play Services and Heinemann's Scenes for Women by Women. She has also been profiled in Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in History and Criticism from the University of Alabama Press. Porter was born in Savannah, Georgia, and lives in Brooklyn.
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The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter
Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife, Darla, head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown. Not everyone in their upscale Park Slope building has this privilege: not Xavier, the teenager in the Cardi B T-shirt, nor Darla’s best friend, Ruby, and her partner, Katsumi, who stay behind to save their Michelin-starred restaurant.
During an upstate hike on the aptly named Devil’s Path, Theo divulges a long-held secret—and when Darla disappears after the ensuing argument, he finds himself the prime suspect. As Darla’s and Theo’s families and friends come together to search for her, with Ruby and Katsumi stepping in to broker peace, past and present collide with startling consequences.
Set against the pulse of an ever-changing city, The Rich People Have Gone Away connects the lives of ordinary New Yorkers to tell a powerful story of hope, love, and inequity in our times—while reminding us that no one leaves the past behind completely.