Fiction Addiction

1175 Woods Crossing Rd. #5
Greenville, SC 29607
864-675-0540
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Store Hours:
Mon-Fri: 10am-5:30pm
Sat: 10am-4pm

www.fiction-addiction.comJune 7, 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

CONTACT:
Jill Hendrix
Fiction Addiction
864-675-0540
info@fiction-addiction.com
http://www.fiction-addiction.com 

 

Book Signing Party for Bestselling Historical Novelist Barbara J. Taylor at Cafe and Then Some

   

In All Waiting Is Long (Kaylie Jones, paperback, $15.95, on sale 7/5/16), a Pennsylvania community discovers the limits of love, loyalty, and sacrifice in a riveting historical tale of female agency in an age of eugenics, the sequel to Barbara J. Taylor's bestselling debut, Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night. You can meet the author at her book signing event at Cafe and Then Some in downtown Greenville on Tuesday, August 2nd, at 6:30pm. This event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.

 

All Waiting Is LongAll Waiting Is Long tells the stories of the Morgan sisters, a study in contrasts. In 1930, twenty-five-year-old Violet travels with her sixteen-year-old sister Lily from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to the Good Shepherd Infant Asylum in Philadelphia, so Lily can deliver her illegitimate child in secret. In doing so, Violet jeopardizes her engagement to her longtime sweetheart, Stanley Adamski. Meanwhile, Mother Mary Joseph, who runs the Good Shepherd, has no idea the asylum's physician, Dr. Peters, is involved in eugenics and experimenting on the girls with various sterilization techniques.

 

Five years later, Lily and Violet are back home in Scranton, one married, one about to be, each finding her own way in a place where a woman's worth is tied to her virtue. Against the backdrop of the sweeping eugenics movement and rogue coal mine strikes, the Morgan sisters must choose between duty and desire. Either way, they risk losing their marriages and each other.

 

The novel picks up sixteen years after the close of Barbara J. Taylor's debut novel, Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night -- a Publisher's Weekly Best Summer Book of 2014 -- and continues her Dickensian exploration of the Morgan sisters and other characters of Scranton in the early twentieth century.

    

 

Barbara J. TaylorAbout the author:

Barbara J. Taylor lives in Scranton, Pennsylvania, home of the second-largest St. Patrick's Day parade in the country. She has an MFA in creative writing from Wilkes University and teaches English in the Pocono Mountain School District.


If you cannot make the event, you can reserve a personalized copy of the author's book by contacting Fiction Addiction in advance at 864-675-0540 or at info@fiction-addiction.com.

 

 

ABOUT FICTION ADDICTION

Fiction Addiction is a local, woman-owned, independent bookstore established in 2001. The store carries a mixture of new and used fiction and nonfiction, including children's books, as well as gift items. We are located at 1175 Woods Crossing Road (in the shopping center with Fried Green Tomatoes, Boardwalk, and Jimmy John's). For more information, visit our website at http://www.fiction-addiction.com or call us at 864-675-0540.

 

 

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