BookTowne Welcomes Amy Jo Burns, Author of Wait for Me

A ticket includes a signed copy of the book.

ABOUT THE BOOK

From the author of Mercury and Shiner comes a novel that celebrates the meteoric ways a female folk star can disappear, reinvent herself, and inspire a fresh generation to sing.

When young folk singer Elle Harlow reaches the height of her prowess in 1973, she has twowildly beloved albums to her name and a hidden history of impossible heartbreak. After she sets foot on the famed Grand Ole Opry stage, a far cry from the mountain that raised her, Elle gives the biggest performance of her life. Then, to the dismay of shocked fans, her producer, and the man who still loves her, she vanishes.

Almost two decades later, eighteen-year-old Marijohn Shaw is spending her summer pumping gas, writing songs on her broken mandolin, and longing for a mother. Her father Abe has always sworn he was the last person to see Elle Harlow alive, but when a meteor strikes the woods of their sleepy Pennsylvania town and a piece of Elle’s past emerges from the wreckage, the truth of her disappearance sets fire to everything Marijohn believes about herself, her music, and her ability to love with abandon.

Wait for Me is an unapologetic, deeply emotive story set in Appalachia and Nashville that defies the trope of the missing woman and gives us a female duo who can find hope in each other and sing the ache in every good song.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Amy Jo Burns is the author of the memoir Cinderland and the novel Shiner, which was aBarnes & Noble Discover pick and an NPR Best Book of the Year. Her latest novel, Mercury, was a Barnes & Noble Book Club pick, a Book of the Month selection, a People Magazine Book of the Week, and an Editors’ Choice at The New York Times. A western Pennsylvania native, she lives in New Jersey with her family.

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