An Evening with Author Jeannette Walls
#1 New York Times bestselling author of Hang the Moon
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Laurel Ridge Community College • Barkman Conference Center • Fauquier Campus
6480 College St. • Warrenton, VA 20187-8820
Tickets $35
Hang the Moon available for purchase at the event for $30
(Book Signing with The Open Book to follow the event)
Event Sponsored by the Laurel Ridge Community College Library
Monies raised benefit the success of students through the Laurel Ridge Educational Foundation.
Questions? Contact Laurel Ridge Educational Foundation development officer Andy Gyurisin at [email protected] or 540-664-5027.
About Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York. With some money saved, grants, loans, and a job answering phones on Wall Street for a year, Jeannette was able to finance herself through Barnard College in Manhattan. Her memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller for more than eight years. The film adaptation of her memoir, The Glass Castle, featured a star-studded cast, including Woody Harrelson and Naomi Watts as her parents, and Brie Larson as Walls. She is also the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers The Silver Star and Half Broke Horses, which was named one of the 10 best books of 2009 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Walls lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor.
About Her New Book: Hang the Moon
“Glorious…a masterwork.” —The Washington Post
“Propulsive.” —Associated Press
“Wild, smart, energetic.” —Los Angeles Times
“Brilliant and effervescent.” —NPR
From the #1 bestselling author of The Glass Castle, the instant New York Times bestseller a “rip-roaring, action-packed” (The New York Times) novel about an indomitable young woman in prohibition-era Virginia.
Sallie Kincaid is the fiercely independent, intrepid, and impulsive daughter of Duke Kincaid, the most powerful man in Claiborne County. When the Duke dies unexpectedly, Sallie is suddenly in charge of the family business. In 1920s Virginia, that’s bootlegging, but there is more involved than Sallie ever suspected. Old family members and new opportunists make their own claims to the Kincaid fortune, and Sallie’s father casts a shadow long after his death. This is a family—and a culture—with dark secrets, each of which Sallie must confront. In Hang the Moon, Jeannette Walls tells the story of a young woman navigating a world where legal and illegal don’t always match right and wrong. But Sallie Kincaid discovers her own path and triumphs.
