Sara Shukla In Conversation with Julie Gerstenblatt

Name: Sara Shukla In Conversation with Julie Gerstenblatt
Start: 2024-09-26T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 184 County Road, Barrington, RI, United States, Rhode Island 02806

Schedule

Thu Sep 26 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

184 County Road, Barrington, RI, United States, Rhode Island 02806 | Barrington, RI

Join us in welcoming author Sara Shukla back home to Barrington! She will be in conversation with Julie Gerstenblatt discussing her debut novel, PINK WHALES.
Discussion and Q&A to be held at Barrington Books on Thursday, September 19 at 7:00pm. This is a ticketed event. General admission for the presentation only is free. Presentation and book signing tickets include a copy of the hardcover book which was published on 6/4/24, and admission to the signing line after the presentation.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Falling in with the cool moms of her preppy New England town might upend one woman's life, in a sparkling and sharp-witted novel about marriage, escape, and deceptively tidy little lives.
Charlie is already feeling adrift when she relocates to an exclusive town in coastal New England with her mysteriously distant husband, Dev, and their young twins in tow. She hopes the move will recharge her stalled marriage, and she wants her kids to feel like they belong, even if she's clearly a fish out of water herself. In a strange new world where summer is a verb and both the harbor and the partygoers are awash in a dizzying constellation of pinks and pastels, she's never felt so confounded or alone. She'll need more than a preppy handbook to find her way.
Then a trio of power moms--imposing, beautiful, and monogrammed--comes to the rescue, and Charlie clings to their attention like a life raft. As Dev pulls further away, Charlie dives into her newfound friends' circle of yacht clubs, rivalries, and bizarre theme parties, hoping to find her sea legs. She even dares to cozy up to a hot, barefoot, and aggressively flirty local. But if she's running from her problems at home, where exactly is she escaping to? Charlie is beginning to wonder. This ridiculous new normal--and her desire to be part of it--might just eat her alive.

Sara Shukla is an editor for WBUR’s Cognoscenti. You can find her writing at WBUR as well as the Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeneys, and elsewhere. An alum of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator and the University of Virginia, she lives in Massachusetts with her family. Pink Whales is her debut novel.
Julie Gerstenblatt, author of Daughters of Nantucket, holds a doctorate in education in Curriculum and Instruction from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her essays have appeared in The Huffington Post, Grown&Flown, and Cognoscenti, among others. When not writing, Julie is a college essay coach, as well as a producer and on-air host for A Mighty Blaze. A native New Yorker, Julie now lives in coastal Rhode Island with her family and one very smart shichon poo.