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ALISON RESTAURANT & EAST
END BOOKS PRESENT
The Summer 2008 Authors Round Table Dinner Series
Thursday, July 24 @ 6:00 PM
Victoria Lustbader
Stone Creek
An unforgettable novel of tremendous emotional heft, Stone Creek brilliantly illuminates how the powers of love and loss transform the human heart. In the small town of Stone Creek, a random encounter offers two lonely people a chance at happiness.
Danny, a young widower, still grieves for his late wife, but for the sake of his five-year-old son, Caleb, he knows he must move
on. Alone in her summer house, Lily has left her workaholic husband, Paul, to his long hours and late nights back in the city. In
Stone Creek, she can yearn in solitude for the treasure she's been denied: a child.
What occurs when Lily and Danny meet is immediate and undeniable–despite Lily being ten years older and married. But
ultimately it is little Caleb's sadness and need that will tip the scales, upsetting a precarious balance between joy and despair,
between what cannot happen…and what must.
An unforgettable novel of tremendous emotional heft, Stone Creek brilliantly illuminates how the powers of love and loss
transform the human heart.
3 Courses $39.00 per person per person
ALISON @ the Maidstone Arms • 207 Main Street • Easthampton • New York
Reservations & Information
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Thursday, July 31st @ 6:00 PM
Kelly McMasters
Welcome To Shirley
A tribute to the strength and beauty of the town McMasters grew up in, and an attempt to restore dignity and
hope to the town she loves.
McMasters traces the downfall of the place once known as The Town of Flowers from a promising summertime beach community
to a desperate and broken place, filled with desperate and broken people. The story of Shirley parallels that of a nearby federal
nuclear research facility and Superfund site, which covertly sprung up alongside the town behind the cover of the Pine Barrens.
Three leaking nuclear reactors and countless chemical spills have released carcinogens into Shirley, and in 1996 the families of a
childhood cancer cluster and other town residents afflicted with breast, thyroid, and lung cancers sued after the lawyer from Love
Canal took their case.
While it’s impossible not to grieve for the multitudes of parents of lost children and the children of lost parents to whom
McMasters introduces her readers, WELCOME TO SHIRLEY demonstrates powerfully that–even with the evidence on their side–justice is elusive, particularly when it involves a town that everyone, including those who live there, regards as disposable.
3 Courses $39.00 per person per person
ALISON @ the Maidstone Arms • 207 Main Street • Easthampton • New York
Reservations & Information
631 324-5440 or email info@alisonrestaurant.com
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