| Date: | June 25, 2018 |
| Time: | 6:00 - 8:00 PM |
| Venue: | Radford Public Library |
| Organizations: | Leah Weiss |
| Description: |
The Radford Public Library presents a Radford Reads evemt with Author Leah Weiss on Monday, June 25, 2018. Join us for author Leah Weiss’s talk about her new novel, "If the Creek Don’t Rise". Leah Weiss is a bestselling author born in North Carolina and raised in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. "If the Creek Don’t Rise" is her debut novel and was chosen as a Library Reads, an Indie Next and Okra Pick. It was nominated for the Southern Book Prize. The Independent review states that “Leah Weiss’s Appalachian-set fiction debut unfolds like a dark, gripping alt-country ballad.” Leah Weiss is a author currently based in Virginia who's debut and award winning novel "If The Creek Don't Rise" is receiving rave reviews and making a name for the first time novelist. "My roots are deep, simple and southern. They begin in the flat lands of North Carolina where my mama was born, to the mountains of Virginia, home of my daddy’s family, where I’ve lived the last four decades. I was influenced by my mother’s simple upbringing on a farm and her ability to see “rich” where others saw “poor.” My dad’s people were the artists, a granddad who was a violinist, my namesake Leah who designed her clothes and laid a brick patio by herself. Both sides of my family tree were self-sufficient, hard working with humble dreams. I came to the craft of writing in my mid-fifties and started with a subject close to my heart—memoirs about my mom, Lucy, and her extraordinary, simple life. Then I segued into fiction, attending writing conferences and workshops, haunting bookstores and studying my favorite authors. I cut my writing teeth on a novel that didn’t sell and a string of short stories that did. Eventually, I found.the writing voice that is reflected in my first published novel. It’s southern and musical and best when read aloud. It is always about people who are self-sufficient and hard working with humble dreams." -- Leah Weiss Links: • http://leahweiss.com/ • https://www.facebook.com/Leah-Weiss-author-1333892033329076 • https://www.instagram.com/leahweiss1947/ Copies of the book will be available for purchase, and Leah will be signing books following the program. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/338736226653712/ or http://www.radfordva.gov/326/Library or https://www.facebook.com/radford.public.library or call 540-731-3621. |