New York Times Bestselling Author Georgia Hunter at Athena Books!

New York Times Bestselling Author Georgia Hunter at Athena Books!

Athena Books is thrilled to welcome bestselling author Georgia Hunter to discuss her new novel, "One Good Thing."

By Athena Books

Date and time

Starts on Tuesday, May 13 · 6:30pm EDT

Location

Athena Books

228 Sound Beach Avenue Greenwich, CT 06870

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Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours

Athena Books is thrilled to welcome New York Times bestselling author Georgia Hunter to the store! Georgia's unforgettable and inspiring new novel, One Good Thing, is a favorite of our entire staff. A remarkable tale of friendship, motherhood, and survival, One Good Thing is a tender reminder that love for another person, even amidst darkness and uncertainty, can be reason to keep going.

Georgia will be joined in conversation by friend of the store and FanDuel host, Lisa Kerney. Your ticket to the event includes wine, seltzer and light dessert. You won't want to miss this very special evening!

About One Good Thing:

From the New York Times–bestselling author of We Were the Lucky Ones (now a tv series on Hulu) an unforgettable story of hardship and hope, courage and resilience, that follows one young woman’s journey through war-torn Italy

1940, Emilia Romagna. Lili and Esti have been best friends since meeting at the University of Ferrara; when Esti’s son Theo is born, they become as close as sisters. There is a war being fought across borders, and in Italy, Mussolini’s Racial Laws have deemed Lili and Esti descendants of an ‘inferior’ Jewish race, but life somehow goes on—until Germany invades northern Italy, and the friends find themselves in occupied territory.

Esti, older and fiercely self-assured, convinces Lili to flee first to a villa in the countryside to help hide a group of young war orphans, then to a convent in Florence, where they pose as nuns and forge false identification papers for the Underground. When disaster strikes at the convent, a critically wounded Esti asks Lili to take a much bigger step: To go on the run with Theo. Protect him while Esti can’t.

Terrified to travel on her own, Lili sets out on an epic journey south toward Allied territory, through Nazi-occupied villages and bombed-out cities, doing everything she can to keep Theo safe.

About Georgia Hunter:

When Georgia Hunter was fifteen years old, she discovered that she came from a family of Holocaust survivors. Years later, she embarked on a journey of intensive research, determined to unearth and record her family’s remarkable story. The result is the New York Times bestseller, We Were the Lucky Ones, which has been published in over 20 languages and adapted for television by Hulu as a highly acclaimed limited series. One Good Thing is Georgia’s second novel. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and their two sons.

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