Wednesday, May 7, 2003
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Wednesday, May 7, 2003 |
Author speaks at library tomorrowThe Peachtree City Library will host Athens writer Augusta Trobaugh on Thursday, May 8 at 7 p.m. in the Floy Far room at the Library as a part of the popular Georgia Author Series. Trobaugh will be signing and talking about her latest novel, "Swan Place." At the heart of "Swan Place" is fourteen-year-old Dove, who has the strength of character to meet everything life throws at her. A series of family tragedies leaves Dove, a younger sister and baby brother in the care of a seventeen-year-old stepmother. When her father is killed in an accident, Dove has most of the responsibility of raising the family and helping her stepmother to get training as a beautician so she can earn money to support her ready-made family. A group of devout black women come to their aid and transform their life in unusual and profound ways. Trobaugh is the author of three previous novels, "Praise Jerusalem!," "Resting in the Bosom of the Lamb" and "Sophie and the Rising Sun." "Praise Jerusalem!," her first book, won critical acclaim and was a semifinalist in the 1993 Pirate's Alley Faulkner Competition. Trobaugh grew up in a small Georgia town with a population of 82 and she was always listening to the stories being told on the front porch or around the fireplace in the evenings. This was where her characters and ideas would come from when she began to write. Although each of the books is of rural southern families, the stories are quite different but all of them are tributes to the resilience of families and the hardworking women who hold them together. Omega Bookstore will have copies of her books available.
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