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Local author and publisher Janet Hill, best known for her Miranda and Starlight series and for publishing the bestselling novel Ride the Jawbone by Jim Moore, will be here to discuss writing and her publishing company, Raven Publishing, on Tuesday, February 21st at 7pm. Her newest book, Kendall's Storm, continues the story of twins raised separately by their divorced parents. A book signing will follow.
Book Club: American Rust
Tuesday, February 28th at 7pm
Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation--as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love--that arise from its loss. From local bars to trainyards to prison, it is the story of two young men, bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia, and the beauty around them, who dream of a future beyond the factories and abandoned homes.
Left alone to care for his aging father after his mother commits suicide and his sister escapes to Yale, Isaac English longs for a life beyond his hometown. But when he finally sets out to leave for good, accompanied by his temperamental best friend, former high school football star Billy Poe, they are caught up in a terrible act of violence that changes their lives forever.
Evoking John Steinbeck's novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, American Rust takes us into the contemporary American heartland at a moment of profound unrest and uncertainty about the future. It is a dark but lucid vision, a moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence and the power of love and friendship to redeem us.
