JANE SMILEY

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Jane Smiley celebrates her exhilarating new novel in Santa Rosa - Lidie: The Further Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton!

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SANTA ROSA --Copperfield’s Books welcomes bestselling local author Jane Smiley to Santa Rosa in celebration of her exhilarating new novel - <a href="https://copperfieldsbooks.com/book/9780593802298" title="https://copperfieldsbooks.com/book/9780593802298" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Lidie: The Further Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton</a>.Join us for a reading and warm discussion, followed by an audience Q&amp;A and booksigning.This is a free event, registration required due to limited seatingFrom the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, a rousing novel that follows two young women fleeing a divided America: one running toward a dazzling future and the other running from a troubled past.Christmas, 1857. America's future is precarious; civil war looms on the horizon. After her abolitionist husband is murdered in the lawless Kansas Territory, Lidie Newton returns, in mourning, to her hometown of Quincy, Illinois. But her sisters have little comfort to offer, and Lidie is haunted by the memories of her failures—until she takes an interest in her niece, Annie. Beautiful, self-assured, and mischievous, Annie sticks out in Quincy. She becomes an actress at the local theater, and when she is offered the opportunity to perform abroad, she decides to run away. But travel is dangerous for a young unmarried woman, so Lidie, armed with her pistol and her wit, goes with her.The two women embark on a perilous journey across the Atlantic, rushing toward an unknown future in England. Once they arrive in Liverpool, they vanish into new roles in the household of Annie's benefactor, Mr. Mallory Cunningham. Annie takes a stage name and finds her way to a career, while Lidie becomes her lady's maid. But will either of them be content with her new lot in life?Exuberant and riveting, a sly commentary on truth and beauty and fulfillment that resonates with our times, Lidie delivers a panoramic portrait of a volatile era and the headstrong women trying to live an honest life in it.Author: Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and the Last Hundred Years Trilogy: Some Luck, Early Warning, and Golden Age. She is the author as well of several works of nonfiction and books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has also received the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She lives in Northern California.

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