Decatur Library presented by WABE
Saturday, 5:30-6:15
A 1950s socialite chafes against parental expectations in Amber Brock's Lady Be Good, and Lisa Patton's Rush explores a modern-day caste system that just may be breaking down. Whether past or present, a woman's pedigree sometimes really matters.
Amber Brock is the author of Lady Be Good, a work of historical/women's/literary fiction that follows on the heels of her critically acclaimed,
debut novel, A Fine Imitation. Brock is a history aficionado, taking every opportunity to
travel abroad and take in history and art museums.
Lisa Patton, bestselling author of Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter, Yankee Doodle Dixie, Southern as a Second Language, and Rush, is a Memphis, Tennessee, native who spent time as a Vermont innkeeper until three sub-zero winters sent her speeding back down South. She has more than 20 years' experience in the music and entertainment business, including radio, television, and concert promotions, and is a graduate of the University of Alabama. The proud mother of two sons, eight bonus children and eleven grandchildren, Lisa lives in the rolling hills of Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and their four-legged furry daughter named Rosie.
Stacia Pelletier
Stacia Pelletier is the author of Accidents of Providence and The Half Wives, both of which were shortlisted for the Townsend Prize in Fiction. She earned graduate degrees in religion and historical theology from Emory University. She has been a Woodruff Fellow, a W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow, and a two-time fellow of the Hambidge Center. She works at Emory University in Atlanta.