About this Event
Come hear author Lo Patrick in person talking about her latest novel, The Night the River Wept, in conversation with author Emily Carpenter. The book is an ode to the mountain towns of Georgia; an intense yet poignant mystery driven by another magnetic Lo Patrick protagonist; and a meditation on the suffering we ignore, the people we misjudge, and the beauty in recognizing the untapped potential in others—and ourselves.
From the acclaimed author of The Floating Girls comes THE NIGHT THE RIVER WEPT, a contemporary Southern story about a small-town, stay-at-home wife who suffers a tragic miscarriage and finds herself completely lost—until a gig volunteering at the local police station becomes the opportunity to investigate the county’s most notorious cold case. After months of puttering around, mourning her miscarriage, and becoming increasingly irked by her husband, Arlene seizes the change of pace that comes with taking a job at her local police precinct. But when she takes to poking around old case files, she unearths a cold case, the Deck River Tragedy: the M**der of three children, followed days later by the prime suspect’s suicide. Arlene recruits the suspect’s prickly, investigative aunt and the station’s straight-laced, tight-lipped receptionist, and she reopens the case
Lo Patrick is a former lawyer and current novelist. She grew up outside Atlanta before going to Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. She remained in L.A. for seven years where she was a concert promoter, model booker, and musician before eventually leaving L.A. and attending law school at University of Miami. She graduated magna cum laude, began writing, and moved back to Georgia, where she lives with her husband and two children. The Floating Girls was her debut novel.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Roswell Public Library, 115 Norcross Street, Roswell, United States
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