Buxton Books is excited to have Leah Weiss and Lindy Carter together in conversation for their newest novels! Leah Weiss will be featuring her novel All the Little Hopes, and Lindy Carter will be celebrating the publication of her novel The Rice Birds.
This is a free in-person event. Program begins at 6pm!
ABOUT ALL THE LITTLE HOPES & LEAH WEISS:
“Deep in the tobacco land of North Carolina, thirteen-year-old Lucy Brown is precocious and itching for adventure. When Allie Bert Tucker wanders into town, an outcast with a puzzling past, Lucy figures the two of them can solve any curious crime they find—just like her hero, Nancy Drew. Lush with Southern atmosphere, All the Little Hopes is the story of two girls growing up as war creeps closer, blurring the difference between what’s right, what’s wrong, and what we know to be true.”
Leah Weiss was born in North Carolina and lives in Virginia. She retired in 2015 from a 24-year career as an Executive Assistant at Virginia Episcopal School and published her debut novel, If The Creek Don’t Rise, in August, 2017; it has sold over 100,000 copies. All The Little Hopes was released in July 2021. Leah writes full time, enjoys meeting with book clubs and speaking about finding the story and the characters to tell it.
ABOUT THE RICE BIRDS & LINDY CARTER:
“In 1849, twin sisters fleeing Ireland’s famine arrive at New York’s seaport, but only one sister, Nora, is allowed to get on the boat to South Carolina to fulfill her work contract. Nora befriends Pearl, an enslaved worker, on their master’s rice plantation and soon, the two flee to Charleston after one of them commits a crime. Nora frantically seeks to get back to her sister and Pearl tries to find her mother before heading north. Historically accurate,The Rice Birds takes the reader beyond the well-known narrative about Charleston’s history to reveal real events and lives that have seen little light in contemporary books.”
Lindy Keane Carter is a graduate of the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. After writing non-fiction for 30 years, she signed up for a fiction-writing class at a community college in Maryland. Her short stories won awards in 2003 and 2009 in the South Carolina Arts Commission’s Fiction Project contest. The Rice Birds is her third published novel. Lindy is the mother of two daughters and a son.
This is a free in-person event. Program begins at 6pm!
Buxton Books continues to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic with the rise of the Omicron variant. If you are feeling sick or exhibiting flu-like symptoms, we kindly ask that you do not attend the event and take care of yourself.