Book Signing with Author Gina Troisi: The Angle of Flickering Light

Book Signing with Author Gina Troisi: The Angle of Flickering Light

Venue: The BookSmiths Shoppe

Date: December 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM (Eastern Time)

Come join us at The BookSmiths Shoppe for a special book signing event with author Gina Troisi! Get your copy of The Angle of Flickering Light signed and meet the talented author in person. Don't miss this opportunity to chat with Gina, ask her questions, and hear about her inspiration behind the book. Mark your calendars and we'll see you there!

About the Book: esperate to find respite from her father's verbal abuse, his various affairs, and her step-mother's psychological torment, Gina spent hours doing Jane Fonda's workouts, smoked cigarettes instead of eating food, and became obsessed with her thinness... with the notion of fading away. She found solace in restlessness-drinking hallucinogenic mushroom tea and inhaling crushed pills and powders-perching herself on the periphery of danger again and again.

Gina soon glimpsed a better life for herself when her grandfather, a man who was a surrogate father to her, became terminally ill. She soon fell in love with John, a stranger who was utterly familiar, but who was addicted to heroin. She moved from New Hampshire to California, crossing the country in an attempt to alleviate her self-destructive tendencies, but found herself pulled back to New Hampshire, to John, a man with whom, despite his struggle, she could not deny the sense of home she felt.

What would it cost for a girl to run wildly and recklessly into womanhood, making instant, temporary homes?

About the Author:Gina Troisi is the author of the memoir, The Angle of Flickering Light (Vine Leaves Press, 2021), which was a finalist for the 2022 Maine Literary Awards. The Angle of Flickering Light won first place for the 2021 Royal Dragonfly Book Award for Memoir, received a Silver Medal for the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), a Silver Medal for the 2021 Reader’s Favorite Book Award, and has placed in several other contests, including but not limited to the 2021 New England Book Festival Award for Non-fiction, the 2021 Paris Book Festival Award for Memoir, and the 2021 Southern California Book Festival Award for Memoir.

Gina received an MFA in creative nonfiction from The University of Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Program in 2009. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2020. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Fourth Genre, The Gettysburg Review, Fugue, Under the Sun, Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment, and elsewhere. Her works have placed as finalists and semi-finalists in several contests, including the 2020 Iron Horse Literary Review Trifecta Award in Fiction, the 2020 Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose, the 2018 New Letters Publication Award in Fiction, the 2018 Autumn House Press Full-Length Contest, the 2015 Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award, the 2012 Iowa Review Award in Creative Nonfiction, the 2012 Bellevue Literary Review Nonfiction Prize, Bellingham Review’s 2012 Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, and others. She received an Honorable Mention for American Literary Review’s Creative Nonfiction Contest, 2018, and for Gulf Coast’s 2012 Nonfiction Prize.

Gina teaches writing at Southern New Hampshire University, and is a mentor in the Masters of Fine Arts Creative & Professional Writing Program at Western Connecticut State University.