| Date: | July 21, 2018 |
| Time: | 3:00 - 4:00 PM |
| Venue: | Blacksburg Library |
| Organizations: | Noley Reid |
| Description: |
Blacksburg Library presents the Meet the Author Event with Noley Reid on Saturday, July 21, 2018. Join author Noley Reid for a reading from her acclaimed new novel "Pretend We Are Lovely", set in Blacksburg where she grew up. She'll be joined in conversation during the Q&A Session by Erika Meitner, Director of the Masters of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at Virginia Tech. Noley Reid is a novelist and essayist and graduate of the M.F.A. Creative Writing Program of George Mason University and was raised in Blacksburg, VA. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Bustle, Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Los Angeles Review of Books, Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, and the Southern Review. She now lives in Newburgh, Indiana with her two best boys. Her novel "Pretend We Are Lovely" is an Oprah Magazine Editors’ Pick and a Publishers Weekly Best of the Season. Links: • https://www.noleyreid.com/ • https://www.twitter.com/noleyreid Book Synopsis: It’s the summer of 1982 in Blacksburg, Virginia, seven years after the suspicious death of a son and sibling. Told from alternating points of view by the four living Sobels, Pretend We Are Lovely is a sharp and darkly funny story of forgiveness, family secrets, and the losses we inherit. “In magnetic prose, Reid offers up a scrumptious novel about the things we use to save our fractured relationships.” ~O, The Oprah Magazine Admission is free and all are welcome. Books will be available for purchase and signing. For more information, visit: http://www.montgomery-floyd.lib.va.us/ or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Blacksburg-Library/152248358735 or call 540-552-8246. |