Debra Curtis Author Event

Barrington Books proudly presents Debra Curtis to discuss her stunning debut novel from Jenna Bush Hager’s new venture, Thousand Voices.

Join Debra Curtis, In-Coversation with award winning Rhode Island author Julie Gerstenblatt, on Thursday, May 7th at 6:30pm to discuss LAWS OF LOVE AND LOGIC nestled among the stacks at Barrington Books.

A copy of LAWS OF LOVE AND LOGIC is included with each ticket purchase

ABOUT LAWS OF LOVE AND LOGIC

A STUNNING DEBUT NOVEL FROM JENNA BUSH HAGER'S NEW VENTURE, THOUSAND VOICES

A woman finds herself torn between her first love and her devoted husband in this extraordinary debut novel that asks the question: Can one heart hold two great loves?

"A magnificent, spellbinding love story."--Clare Leslie Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Broken Country

In the serene town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Lily Webb is deeply in love with a charismatic boy, a college-bound quarterback whose spectacular athletic talents are matched only by his fierce devotion. But their dreams of a life together are cut short when his passionate protectiveness leads to an irrevocable choice--one that tears them apart and leads Lily down a path of heartbreak from which she may never recover.

Lily already knows the sting of loss, beginning with the death of her mother, a tragedy that left deep scars on both her and her gifted younger sister, Jane. Jane seeks escape in the abstract world of mathematics and quantum mechanics--when she can keep the demons that fuel her addictions at bay. As the years pass, Lily buries her twin griefs deep in her heart, finding solace and a new beginning with Marshall Middleton, a renowned ornithologist whose love is as steadfast as the migration patterns he studies. Yet the shadows of her past linger.

When the boy who was once everything to Lily reappears in her life, she struggles with questions around that terrible night in high school. Can she reconcile the wild wonderment of her first love with the comfort and safety of her second? Laws of Love and Logic explores love's enduring power and the human spirit's capacity for forgiveness and redemption.

ABOUT DEBRA CURTIS

Debra Curtis is a retired professor of cultural anthropology at Salve Regina University, where she specialized in gender and sexuality. This is her first novel. She is the mother of grown-up twin girls and lives in Rhode Island with her husband and her English bulldog, Harry, who is the star of much of her TikTok content.

ABOUT JULIE GERSTENBLATT

Julie Gerstenblatt is the author of Daughters of Nantucket, which won the 2024 New England Society Book Award for Fiction, and the forthcoming Stargazer of Nantucket (Park Row, June 2026). She holds a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her essays have appeared in Huffington Post and Grown & Flown, among others. A native New Yorker who has been visiting Nantucket since childhood, Julie now lives in coastal Rhode Island with her family and one very smart shichon poo.