Meet the Author for Lunch @ Hickory Stick Bookshop

The Hickory Stick Bookshop will continue its Meet an Author for Lunch series with Charles Monagan in celebration of his novel, Carrie Welton (Penmore Press, $19.50) on Wednesday, October 19th at 12pm. Guests can enjoy an intimate, catered lunch with the author, followed by discussion and a signing – all for the price of the book! P

If you would like to attend this event, please call 860-868-0525 and make a reservation. The purchase of one copy of Carrie Welton serves as your ticket to the event. If you are unable to attend, you may reserve a signed copy of Carrie Welton by calling The Hickory Stick Bookshop at (860)-868-0525. For further information about this event please visitwww.hickorystickbookshop.com or email books@hickorystickbookshop.com

From the jacket: Eighteen-year-old Carrie Welton is restless, unhappy, and ill-suited to the conventions of nineteenth-century New England. When she is presented with an opportunity to escape in a socially approved manner, she leaps at the chance. Leaving behind personal horrors and the restraints of "good society," she moves to New York, where a group of young artists are beginning to transform that city and make a name for themselves. As she struggles to find her own talent and identity, Carrie wanders from adventure to misadventure. Her travels put her in the path of Bohemian painters, poets, singers, social crusaders, opium eaters, Irish gangs, gamblers, and independent feminists who are redefining what being a woman can mean.

Carrie's demons, however, continue to haunt her, even as she discovers her true calling. In the end, freedom, guilt, forgiveness and death are inextricably bound. But Carrie, being Carrie, sends an astonishing letter from the grave and thus engineers her final escape--forever into your heart.

About the author:

The former editor of Connecticut Magazine, Charles Monagan is the winner of the Gold Medal for Reporting from the National City and Regional Magazine Association and the Connecticut Press Club’s Mark Twain Award for Distinguished Journalism. He is the author of ten books, including The Neurotic’s Handbook, The Reluctant Naturalist, and How to Get a Monkey into Harvard. After learning of the scant but colorful details of Carrie Welton’s youth and terrible death, Monagan took it upon himself to give her a full life in fiction with his first novel, Carrie Welton. Monagan and his wife, Marcia, live in Connecticut.