Main Street EG Inspires Novelist

Martha Reynolds is the best selling author of five novels, including Chocolate for Breakfast, its sequel, Bittersweet Chocolate and Bits of Broken Glass.

A Rhode Islander, Reynolds began writing full time in 2011 after a career as a fraud investigator and like many Ocean State natives, her work inevitably is influenced by her time here.

Her latest novel, Best Seller, is influenced by her teenage years walking up and down Main Street in East Greenwich in the 1970s, she said, and those memories are the setting for the book.

Reynolds will be at Symposium Books in East Greenwich this Wednesday, September 10, from 6:00 to 7:30 pm for an author’s event. She’ll read an excerpt from the book and be available to sign copies.

Symposium Books is located at 1000 Division Road in East Greenwich Square (Dave’s Marketplace plaza).

In Best Seller, a young woman tries to understand herself in a coming-of-age story that most could relate to in some form. Robin Fortune, 19, is “rudderless, working in a diner by day” and shacking up with a friend from high school at night.

“All so strange for her because she was always the one with a plan,” the liner notes state.

If you’ve come of age in Rhode Island, this is one story worth checking out.