Book Your Lunch with Mindy Friddle In Conversation With Caroline Cleveland

Join award-winning author Mindy Friddle in conversation with Caroline Cleveland for a book your lunch event at City Range on Tuesday, June 11th at Noon. They will talk about their books, Her Best Self and When Cicadas Cry, and will be available afterwards to sign.

Your $55 ticket admits one to the event, and includes lunch, as well as a copy of either Her Best Self or When Cicadas Cry. Additional books will be available for sale at the event.

If you're unable to attend, you can purchase signed copies of Her Best Self or When Cicadas Cry on our website.

Tickets can be purchased through Tuesday, June 11th, at 12pm. Refunds can be requested through Friday, June 7th, at 12pm. (You can send someone else in your place after the cutoff, but be sure to give that person your ticket.)

You'll pick a menu option when you arrive at the event. The two options will be:

BBQ Burnt Ends & Grits

Brisket over cheese grits, bourbon onions, BBQ sauce, scallions

Bourbon Pecan Chicken

Crispy pecan coated chicken breast, bourbon cream sauce, mashed potatoes, blistered brussels.

Cookies will be provided for dessert.

Beverage options include iced tea, water, and coffee.

Please let your server know of any food allergies.

Like a Southern Succession, award-winning novelist Mindy Friddle’s "fast paced, clever, and wickedly compelling" (Michel Stone) Her Best Self begins with a car wreck, and lets off the brake into: swingers and wife swaps; swindlers and woo-woo scams; senatorial elections and campaign strategy; secrets and manipulated information; incest and inheritance; a wedding like a game of Stratego; and ambition as more motive than goal.

Janelle “Before”–choreographer of the Wolf family and their enterprises–went over the bridge with her car, in the wreck that ruined Janelle’s reputation and upended her public life. Lucky for her, Lana O’Shield adores lonely people. Coaxing Janelle to remember the circumstances of her accident, her revelations unravel the fragile veil over the Wolfs’ smalltown life. As the Wolf family’s public return–the cold-footed wedding of their only daughter–approaches, HER BEST SELF is part thriller, part drama, following women clawing at independence, no longer pawns in a man’s game.

About the author:

Mindy Friddle is author of the novel, Secret Keepers, (winner of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction). The Garden Angel, her first novel and SIBA bestseller, was selected for Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers. The South Carolina Arts Commission awarded Mindy a prose fellowship, and she has twice won the state’s Fiction Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson and lives on Edisto Island, South Carolina.

A young white woman has been bludgeoned to death in a rural church on Cicada Road, just outside the small town of Walterboro, South Carolina—a state that has been roiling with racial tenson since the shooting of an unarmed Black man by a white police officer. Sam Jenkins, who is Black, was found covered in blood and kneeling over her. Zach Stander, a down-and-out lawyer, is convinced to take Sam’s case by his detective girlfriend, Addie, while the local solicitor prosecuting the case wields the power of an influential family. And then there’s the mysterious cold-case of teen girls murdered on a nearby beach—is there a connection, and will Addie and Zach put the pieces together in time?

About the author:

Caroline Cleveland: A native South Carolinian, Caroline Cleveland grew up in the small town of Walterboro, and she credits her love of reading to its quieter way of life. Her love of the written word eventually led her to law school, and later to establish the law firm Cleveland & Conley, LLC, in Charleston, South Carolina, where she represents public employers, including local governments and law enforcement. Caroline writes stories from a Southern perspective, featuring deceptively peaceful small towns and strong, complex characters who rely on their Southern sense of values. Her debut novel is WHEN CICADAS CRY, published by Union Square & Co. Visit her website at www.CarolineClevelandAuthor.com.

Refund Policy:

• You may request a full refund until Refunds can be requested through Friday, June 7th, at 12pm. After that, we cannot issue a refund, but you can send someone else in your place (make sure they have your ticket).