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SUMMARY:An Evening with Susan Beckham Zurenda
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 19\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nLocation: Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen Street) | please call The Center to reserve your seat: 843-379-7025 \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and NeverMore Books will host an evening with novelist Susan Beckham Zurenda\, author of The Girl from the Red Rose Motel\, on September 19\, at 5:00 p.m. Zurenda will be joined in conversation by bestselling author Cassandra King\, author of Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy. Free and open to the public\, this special event will be held at The Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call 843-379-7025 to reserve in advance. \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nABOUT The Girl from the Red Rose Motel\nImpoverished high school junior Hazel Smalls and privileged senior Sterling Lovell would never ordinarily meet. But when both are punished with in-school suspension\, Sterling finds himself drawn to the gorgeous\, studious girl seated nearby\, and an unlikely relationship begins. Set in 2012 South Carolina\, the novel interlaces the stories of Hazel\, living with her homeless family in the rundown Red Rose Motel; Sterling\, yearning to break free from the expectations of his wealthy parents; and recently widowed Angela Wilmore\, their stern but compassionate English teacher. \nHazel hides her homelessness from Sterling until he discovers her cleaning the motel’s office one morning when he goes with his slumlord father to unfreeze the motel’s pipes. With her secret revealed\, their relationship deepens. Angela\, who has her own struggles in a budding romance with the divorced principal\, offers Hazel the support her family can’t provide. Navigating between privilege and poverty\, vulnerability and strength\, all three must confront what they need from themselves and each other as Hazel gains the courage to oppose boundaries and make a bold\, life-changing decision at novel’s end. Gripping and richly drawn\, The Girl from the Red Rose Motel explores the complex bonds between adults and teenagers and the power of the families we both inherit and create. \nInspired by the author’s experiences teaching in a South Carolina high school\, the novel is also an unflinching\, authentic look at the challenges faced by America’s public school teachers and the struggles of the thousands of homeless children in motels who live\, precariously and almost invisibly\, amid the nation’s most affluent communities. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nSusan Zurenda taught English for 33 years on the college level and at the high school level to AP students. Her debut novel\, Bells for Eli (Mercer University Press\, March 2020; paperback edition March 2021)\, has been selected the Gold Medal (first place) winner for Best First Book—Fiction in the 2021 IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Awards)\, a Foreword Indie Book Award finalist\, a Winter 2020 Okra Pick by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance\, a 2020 Notable Indie on Shelf Unbound\, a 2020 finalist for American Book Fest Best Book Awards\, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for 2021. \nShe has won numerous regional awards for her short fiction. She lives in Spartanburg\, SC. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
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LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - All Night\, All Day: Life\, Death & Angels
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 21\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nFree Registration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-379-7025.\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host a panel discussion and book signing for the anthology All Night\, All Day: Life\, Death & Angels on Thursday\, September 21\, at 5:00 p.m. Free and open to the public\, this event will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call 843-379-7025 to reserve in advance.\nThe panel discussion will include editor Susan Cushman and contributing writers Cassandra King\, Wendy Reed\, and Nancy Dorman-Hickson. \nAbout All Night\, All Day: Life\, Death & Angels\n“All Night\, All Day is an inspirational collection of personal essays\, stories\, and poems by outstanding women authors who write about the appearance of the divine in their lives. Some of these angels come to save a life or change a flat tire. Some appear to warn people\, tell them what to do\, suggest more vegetables and maybe better shoes… In this stunning anthology which explores so many heartwarming brushes with celestial beings\, all these angels are messengers come to assure us we are not alone\, and we are loved.”—Margaret McMullan\, award-winning author of Where the Angels Lived \nThere is something mystical about holding the hand of a person who is “crossing over.” It can be heartbreaking\, of course\, but also very holy and beautiful. Some of the pieces in this collection share the experience of personal loss when a loved one dies. Often the presence of an angel or another mystical experience is shared. But not only in death—there are also stories here of the way the mystical world interacts with us in daily life. And not only angels\, but also mothers\, fathers\, sisters\, grandfathers\, friends\, and even a homeless man and a dog. \nABOUT THE EDITOR AND AUTHORS\nThis is Susan Cushman’s fourth anthology to edit. She is also the author of two novels\, two memoirs\, and a short story collection. Pat Conroy and Cassandra King are her two favorite authors and inspired her to write. Enough said. \n  \n  \nCassandra King (Conroy) is the author of five best-selling novels and two nonfiction books. Her latest book\, Tell Me a Story\, a memoir about life with her late husband Pat Conroy\, was named SIBA’s 2020 non-fiction Book of the Year. A conversation with Cassandra at her home in 2018 about angels—and particularly about the one that visited Pat as he was dying—was the inspiration for this book. \n  \nWendy Reed is an Emmy-winning writer and producer\, whose work include documentaries and the long-running series Bookmark with Don Noble and Discovering Alabama. She is the author of An Accidental Memoir: How I Killed Someone and Other Stories and the co-editor of All Out of Faith and Circling Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality. \n  \nAfter almost twenty years as a features editor at Southern Living magazine\, Nancy Dorman-Hickson now freelances in Birmingham\, Alabama. She co-authored Diplomacy and Diamonds\, the best-selling memoir of Joanne King Herring who was portrayed by Julia Roberts in the movie Charlie Wilson’s War. She is working on a memoir which draws from her rural childhood in the 1960s and 1970s in Mississippi. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
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