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GFWC Women's Club of South County
BOOK & AUTHOR EVENT
GFWC Women’s Club of South County’s
24th ANNUAL BOOK & AUTHOR LUNCHEON
September 18, 2024 @ 11:00 am
Dunes Club, 137 Boston Neck Road,
Narragansett, RI 02882
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The GFWC Women’s Club of South County’s “signature fundraiser” provides book lovers with an enriching afternoon while raising funds to support many nonprofits in beautiful South County. Approximately 300 attendees will listen to award winning authors. The event is emceed by Carly Callahan, Executive Director of the United Theater located in Westerly, Rhode Island.
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Meet The 2024 Authors
Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie:
a new series centered on the stories of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. “A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is summoned to rural Oklahoma to investigate the disappearance of two women…one of them her sister.” Lillie is a USA Today bestselling author and was a Target Book Club pick, a GMA Book Club Buzz Pick, as well as a best mystery of the year from the Washington Post, Amazon Editor’s and Reader’s Digest. Vanessa was a columnist for the Providence Journal and hosts an Instagram Live show with crime fiction authors. She is a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and lives in Providence, RI.
Daughters of Nantucket by Julie Gerstenblatt: This emotional novel, a tale set against Nantucket’s Great Fire of 1846, brings together three courageous women battling to save everything they hold dear. It celebrates the courage and tenacity of women on Nantucket where they knew a rare independence and the challenges that go with it. Julie holds a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction from Columbia University. A native New Yorker, she now lives in coastal Rhode Island with her family and one very smart poodle mix. She likes to say that she moved from New York to Rhode Island to get closer to Nantucket, where she has been vacationing since the 1970’s. DAUGHTERS OF NANTUCKET, which received a starred review from both Booklist and Shelf Awareness and was included on several "most anticipated" lists for 2023, is her debut novel.
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Jackie by Dawn Tripp: a mesmerizing novel of the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the story of a woman who forged a legacy out of grief and shaped history even as she was living it—a deeply private person with a nuanced, formidable intellect. It is the story of a love affair, a complicated marriage, and the fracturing of identity that comes in the wake of unthinkable violence. Other award-winning novels by Tripp, include Georgia, which is a national bestseller and a finalist for the New England Book Award, as well as three previous novels: one of which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, AGNI, and others. Dawn graduated from Harvard and lives in Massachusetts with her family.
*A portion of the sale of each of these books is donated back to GFWC Women’s Club of South County, a 501 ©(3) organization, who will use the proceeds toward grants to nonprofits in South County and for scholarships to women in need. Books will be available for sale at the luncheon and authors will be available to sign your books. If you choose to go to Wakefield Books and purchase any of these books, rather than ordering online, please be sure to mention that you are buying books for the GFWC Women’s Club of South County’s Book & Author Event.