June Wine and Words: A Feigned Madness WITH SPECIAL GUEST Tonya Mitchell

Name: June Wine and Words: A Feigned Madness *WITH SPECIAL GUEST* Tonya Mitchell
Start: 2025-06-03T18:30:00-04:00
Location: Juniper's

Schedule

Tue, 03 Jun, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Juniper's | Covington, KY

Love wine and reading? Join us for the Wine & Words Book Club! We are a laid back, friendly group that meets the first Tuesday of each month (subject to change around holidays). All you have to do is read the book of the month and show up- we hope you can join!
June Book: A Feigned Madness by Tonya Mitchell
Tonya Mitchell, the author of this month's book, was kind enough to agree to come to our meeting in June! Please come with questions for the author and if you have a copy of the book to be signed as well! We are so excited for this opportunity to chat with the author herself!
SYNOPSIS: The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out. —Nellie Bly
Elizabeth Cochrane has a secret.
She isn’t the madwoman with amnesia the doctors and inmates at Blackwell’s Asylum think she is.
In truth, she’s working undercover for the New York World. When the managing editor refuses to hire her because she’s a woman, Elizabeth strikes a deal: in exchange for a job, she’ll impersonate a lunatic to expose a local asylum’s abuses.
When she arrives at the asylum, Elizabeth realizes she must make a decision—is she there merely to bear witness, or to intervene on behalf of the abused inmates? Can she interfere without blowing her cover? As the superintendent of the asylum grows increasingly suspicious, Elizabeth knows her scheme—and her dream of becoming a journalist in New York—is in jeopardy.
A Feigned Madness is a meticulously researched, fictionalized account of the woman who would come to be known as daredevil reporter Nellie Bly. At a time of cutthroat journalism, when newspapers battled for readers at any cost, Bly emerged as one of the first to break through the gender barrier—a woman who would, through her daring exploits, forge a trail for women fighting for their place in the world.