Books and Writing: Author Amanda Gable to read tonight from her book “The Confederate General Rides North”
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A note from City Lights bookstore:
Novelist Amanda C. Gable will be at City Lights on Friday, August 28th at 7:00 p.m. to read from her new book, entitled “The Confederate General Rides North”. Several of us at the store are reading the book now and are recommending it to customers. Friday night’s reading will be a good introduction to the book for potential readers, so if you think you might be interested, we hope you’ll attend.
Growing up in Georgia in the 1960s, eleven-year-old Katherine McConnell, a precocious Civil War buff, is so fascinated by stories of the war’s generals that she often imagines herself one of them, commanding troops and planning campaigns. This strategy helps her bring some sense of order to a chaotic family life. When Kat’s mother wakes her early one morning for an impromptu road trip north to find antiques for a shop she wants to open, Kat seizes the opportunity for real adventure. It will be just her, her mother, and their Chevy Impala.
As the navigator, Kat cleverly charts a course that takes them to battlefields and historic sites, following the path of her heroes. She hopes the trip also will provide her beautiful, impulsive mother the means for success. But as they travel farther from home, Kat discovers that each stop brings not only new experiences but new questions. Unexpected revelations test her faith in her mother, her understanding of the war, and her confidence in the trip’s outcome; neither her mother’s intentions nor the glory and adventure depicted in her history books are quite what they had seemed.
Gable, who was born in Marietta, Georgia and now lives in Decatur, has a PhD. in American literature and feminist studies. Her short stories have been published widely, but this is her first novel. She is at work on a second. An autographing will follow her reading. To reserve a signed copy of the book, or for more information, please callCity Lights at 586-9499.
Tags: american literature, city lights bookstore, feminist studies
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