About this Event
The San Antonio Book Festival proudly kicks off the big weekend with a special event! Join Jenna Bush Hager for a celebration of her new publishing imprint, Thousand Voices, and its latest book: Liar's Dice by debut novelist Juliet Faithfull. The conversation will be moderated by Yvette Benavides. Jenna Bush Hager, TODAY show host and founder of the wildly popular Read With Jenna Book Club, will also provide an inside look at Thousand Voices and share her love of books—including Juliet Faithfull's moving and meaningful Liar's Dice.
The novel, set in 1970s Brazil, captures the precarious intensity of coming of age in a volatile time—when repression and silence are the fabric of everyday life—and the cost of family secrets. Heartrending and tender, Liar's Dice is a testament to the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
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Dolores and Mita grow up in rural Brazil, identical and inseparable. But Mita develops a mysterious illness that challenges the family. One day, Dolores wakes up to find her sister gone—sent to a hospital in their father’s native London. There is no Dolores without Mita. And now Mita is gone.
When the family moves to Rio, Dolores’ parents act as if Mita never existed. Lonely and grief-stricken, Dolores struggles to learn to read and write at the stodgy British School—until she meets Andrea, a headstrong, streetwise girl from the dangerous part of town. Andrea shows Dolores a new side of Rio—and how to survive it. As the dictatorship cracks down on dissenters, and people disappear, Dolores begins to wonder if her sister is dead, and her parents are lying. Determined to uncover the truth, Dolores is willing to do whatever it takes—lie, gamble and steal—to get her sister back.
Liar’s Dice captures the precarious intensity of coming of age in a volatile time—when repression and silence are the fabric of everyday life—and the cost of family secrets. Heartrending and tender, Juliet Faithfull’s debut novel is a testament to the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood. "I hesitate to call anything this beautiful ‘magic.’ It’s more than that; it’s a sacred healing.”—Sandra Cisneros
About the panelists:
Juliet Faithfull
is a Spanish British American writer who grew up in Brazil. Liar’s Dice, her first novel, was a winner of the 2024 Irish Writers Centre’s Novel Fair and a semifinalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship. She was awarded a Pauline Scheer Fellowship by GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program, and her short stories have been published in the Bellevue Literary Review and Urbanus Magazine. A graduate of Harvard University and Smith College School for Social Work, Juliet works as a trilingual psychotherapist and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her two sons.
Jenna Bush Hager
is the cohost of TODAY with Jenna & Sheinelle and the founder of the wildly popular Read with Jenna book club. Since launching the club in 2019, she has selected 87 titles—52 of which have become New York Times bestsellers. In 2022, she launched her production company, Thousand Voices, in partnership with NBCUniversal’s Universal Studio Group. Last year, she launched Thousand Voices Books, a co-venture with Random House Publishing Group, through which she publishes books across all its imprints. She has written ten books herself and is a #1 New York Times bestselling author.
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- Every ticket includes a seat and a copy of the book. The book and a signed book plate will be mailed the week of April 27. (San Antonio is getting a special sneak peek of Liar's Dice, which will be released on April 28!).
- If your address changes between the time of purchase and April 27, please email [email protected].
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Central Christian Church, 720 North Main Avenue, San Antonio, United States
USD 42.56
