Author Brunch with Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly at Jolly Good Fellows Sweet Boutique

Author Brunch with Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly, authors of The Tilted World

(William Morrow  $25.99, due October 1)

Wednesday October 23 at 10:00 a.m.

Jolly Good Fellows Sweet Boutique, Market Square

Brunch  $33.00, includes the book

Meet former Lake Forester, Beth Ann Fennelly and her husband Tom
Franklin as we celebrate the publication of their first collaborative
novel.

Set against the backdrop of the
historic flooding of the Mississippi River,
The Tilted World is an extraordinary tale of murder and
moonshine, sandbagging and saboteurs, and a man and a woman who find
unexpected love, from Tom Franklin, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, and award-winning
poet Beth Ann Fennelly

The year is 1927. As rains swell the Mississippi, the mighty river
threatens to burst its banks and engulf everything in its path,
including federal revenue agent Ted Ingersoll and his partner, Ham
Johnson. Arriving in the tiny hamlet of Hobnob, Mississippi, to
investigate the disappearance of two fellow agents who'd been on the
trail of a local bootlegger, they are astonished to find a baby boy
abandoned in the middle of a crime scene.

Ingersoll, an orphan raised by nuns, is determined to find the infant a
home, and his search leads him to Dixie Clay Holliver. A strong woman
married too young to a philandering charmer, Dixie Clay has lost a child
to illness and is powerless to resist this second chance at motherhood.
From the moment they meet, Ingersoll and Dixie Clay are drawn to each
other. He has no idea that she's the best bootlegger in the county and
may be connected to the agents' disappearance. And while he seems kind
and gentle, Dixie Clay knows full well that he is an enemy who can never
be trusted.

When Ingersoll learns that a saboteur might be among them, planning a
catastrophe along the river that would wreak havoc in Hobnob, he knows
that he and Dixie Clay will face challenges and choices that they will
be fortunate to survive. Written with extraordinary insight and
tenderness, The Tilted World is that rarest of creations, a
story of seemingly ordinary people who find hope and deliverance where
they least expect it—in each other.

 

 

Location: 


Jolly Good Fellows Sweet Boutique 270 Market Square Lake Forest, Illinois 60045