Ann Hood

Ann Hood is one of our favorite authors (and favorite people!) and we're over the moon to welcome her for an event to celebrate the release of THE STOLEN CHILD. From Bill's recommendation: "Ann Hood has outdone herself with her new novel, THE STOLEN CHILD. Three stories twirl around each other until they become one -- a grumpy, bitter dying man returns to Europe to right a wrong he committed during WW1; a young woman from Rhode Island decides to leave her tragic life and go to sunny Naples to meet a boy she barely knows at Pablo Nerudo's house; and an Italian man creates a Museum of Tears, finding tears in joy and hardship. It's a story of children and parents, of loss and love, of art and what we leave behind, and a story about tragedy and redemption. I blew through this book, unable to put it down as the parallel tales, told in a fractured timeline, coalesced into a lovely ending. I just adored it!"

Ann will talk about her new novel, answer audience questions and sign books.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
An unlikely duo ventures through France and Italy to solve the mystery of a child’s fate in this moving, page-turning novel from “a gifted storyteller” (People).

For decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist he’d befriended thrust both her paintings and her baby into his hands—and disappeared. In 1974, with only months left to live, Nick enlists Jenny, a college dropout desperate for adventure, to help him unravel the mystery. The journey leads them from Paris galleries and provincial towns to a surprising place: the Museum of Tears, the life’s work of a lonely Italian craftsman. Determined to find the baby and the artist, hopeless romantic Jenny and curmudgeonly Nick must reckon with regret, betrayal, and the lives they’ve left behind.

With characteristic warmth and verve, Ann Hood captures a world of possibility and romance through the eyes of a young woman learning to claim her place in it. The Stolen Child is an engaging, timeless novel of secrets, love lost and found, and the nature of forgiveness.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ann Hood is the author of a dozen books of memoir and fiction, including the best-selling novels The Book That Matters Most and The Knitting Circle, and editor of the anthologies Knitting Yarns and Knitting Pearls. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and New York.