AAUW Author's Brunch April 4, 2009

An Author's Brunch will be held on Saturday, April 4 10:30 AM sponsored by the Newburyport and North Shore Area Branches and the Friends of the Georgetown Public Library.

Rowley's Holly Robinson will talk about her forthcoming memoir, "The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter," following a brunch at the Georgetown Library on April 4 beginning at 10:30 a.m. She will be joined by Katherine Howe, author of a new historical thriller, "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane." The event is co-sponsored by the American Association of University Women and the Friends of the Georgetown Library.

Robinson's warm and tender book seeks to answer the question, "What kind of man goes to Annapolis, becomes a naval officer, and sits on his ship in the middle of the Mediterranean dreaming of gerbils?" Her recollections of the gerbil farm in the garage and growing up with her father's odd but endearing obsession have been turned into a work which has garnered praise from readers of advance copies.

Holly Robinson is an award-winning writer and was a contributing editor to The Ladies Home Journal and Parents magazines, among other publications.

Howe, descendent of two women accused of witchcraft in 17th century Salem, explores the turbulent era from a new angle: what if the women really were witches? Graduate student Connie Goodwin is asked this question in her oral exam and thinks she's being mocked until a chance discovery leads to a search which turns her ideas of the Salem witch trials upside down. Reviewers refer to the novel as a "page turner" which is "impossible to put down."

The brunch will include breakfast casseroles, muffins, fruit, Caesar salad, juice, coffee and tea.
AAUW's share of the proceeds will be used to pay for a local college student to attend the Leadership Conference in Washington DC. in June.

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