Delicious Discussions Author Luncheon with Juliet Grames
Schedule
Mon Sep 23 2024 at 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Location
1 Mohegan Sun Boulevard,Montville,06382,US | Uncasville, CT
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Author luncheon with Juliet Grames for her new novel THE LOST BOY OF SANTA CHIONIA. The ticket includes lunch and a book.Otis Library and Bank Square Books present a Delicious Discussions author luncheon with Juliet Grames in celebration of her new novel The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia . Tickets for this event are $45 and include an author talk and signing, a signed copy of The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia , and a buffet lunch at Michael Jordan's Steakhouse at Mohegan Sun. This event requires pre-registration.
The Delicious Discussions Author Series is a partnership between Otis Library, Bank Square Books, and Michael Jordan's Steakhouse at Mohegan Sun. Sponsored by Guinan & Houle, LLP.
About the Book
One unidentified skeleton. Three missing men. A village full of secrets. The best-selling author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna brings us a sparkling--by turns funny and moving--novel about a young American woman turned amateur detective in a small village in Southern Italy.
Calabria, 1960. Francesca Loftfield, a twenty-seven-year-old, starry-eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia tasked with opening a nursery school. There is no road, no doctor, no running water or electricity. And thanks to a recent flood that swept away the post office, there's no mail, either.
Most troubling, though, is the human skeleton that surfaced after the flood waters receded. Who is it? And why don't the police come and investigate? When the local priest's housekeeper begs Francesca to help determine if the remains are those of her long-missing son, Francesca begins to ask a lot of inconvenient questions. As an outsider, she might be the only person who can uncover the truth. Or she might be getting in over her head. As she attempts to juggle a nosy landlady, a suspiciously dashing shepherd, and a network of local families bound together by a code of silence, Francesca finds herself forced to choose between the charitable mission that brought her to Santa Chionia, and her future happiness, between truth and survival.
Set in the wild heart of Calabria, a land of sheer cliff faces, ancient tradition, dazzling sunlight--and one of the world's most ruthless criminal syndicates-- The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia is a suspenseful puzzle mystery, a captivating romance, and an affecting portrait of a young woman in search of a meaningful life.
About the Author
JULIET GRAMES is the best-selling author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Real Simple , Parade , and The Boston Globe, and she is the recipient of an Ellery Queen Award from the Mystery Writers of America. She is editorial director at Soho Press in New York.
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1 Mohegan Sun Boulevard,Montville,06382,US, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd, Uncasville, CT 06382-1355, United States,Uncasville, ConnecticutEvent Location & Nearby Stays: