Cottage Grove All Community Read with Carol Dunbar

Name: Cottage Grove All Community Read with Carol Dunbar
Start: 2024-10-24T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-24T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Granite Ridge School Library

Schedule

Thu Oct 24 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Granite Ridge School Library | South Park, PA

Join the Village of Cottage Grove Library Board and Friends of the Cottage Grove Library for the second annual ALL Community Read with award-winning author, Carol Dunbar. Carol Dunbar will be in conversation with our 2023 author, Maggie Ginsberg.
Your complimentary copy of A Winter's Rime can be picked up from 210 Progress Drive (main lobby) beginning September 3rd while supplies last. Library staff will be available on September 10, 5-7 p.m. for afterhours book pick-up.
Thank you to Friends of the Cottage Grove Library for purchasing 100 copies of A Winter's Rime for the community!
ABOUT THE BOOK: A harrowing and emotional novel set-in rural Wisconsin — A Winter's Rime explores the impact of generational trauma, and one woman's journey to find peace and healing from the violence of her past.
Mallory Moe is a twenty-five-year-old veteran Army mechanic, living with her girlfriend, Andrea, and working overnights at a gas station store while figuring out what’s next. Andrea's off-grid cabin provides a perfect sanctuary for Mallory, a synesthete with a hypersensitivity to sound that can trigger flashbacks from her childhood.
The getaway that's largely abandoned during the off season starts out idyllic, until Andrea's once-loving behavior turns controlling and abusive, and Mallory once again finds herself not wanting to go home.
After a particularly disturbing altercation, Mallory escapes into the subzero night and stumbles into Shay, a teenage girl, injured and asking for help. But it isn’t long before she realizes that Shay isn't the only one who needs saving.
A story about sisterhood and second chances, A Winter’s Rime looks to nature to find what it can teach us about bearing hardship and expanding our capacity to forgive — not just others, but ourselves.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Carol Dunbar has been writing books since kindergarten and worked freelance as a ghostwriter on her path to becoming a novelist. In 2023, her debut novel, The Net Beneath Us, won the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award, was shortlisted for a WLA Literary Award, and was an honoree for The Society of Midland Authors Fiction Book Award. Her stories have appeared in The New York Times, Lit Hub, Brevity, The South Carolina Review, and others. Her essays about living off the grid can be heard on Wisconsin Public Radio; one essay, involving her encounter with a mother bear, was televised as an animated short. Her second novel, A Winter's Rime, releases in the fall of 2023.