Author Reading and Book Signing with Sharyn McCrumb
Venue: Pearisburg Public Library, Pearisburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, September 21, 2017
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

Description:
Pearisburg Public Library presents an Author Reading and Book Signing with New York Times bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb on Thursday, September 21, 2017.

Sharyn McCrumb will read from her upcoming novel, "The Unquiet Grave" and sign books following the reading.

"An Unquiet Grave" is a finely wrought novel set in nineteenth-century West Virginia, based on the true story of one of the strangest murder trials in American history, the case of the Greenbrier Ghost.

Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P. D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Fresh out of medical school, Dr. Boozer is eager to try the new talking cure for insanity, and encourages his elderly patient to reminisce about his experiences as the first black attorney to practice law in nineteenth-century West Virginia. Gardner's most memorable case was the one in which he helped to defend a white man on trial for the murder of his young bride, a case that the prosecution based on the testimony of a ghost.

For more information about Sharyn McCrumb and her new book, visit: http://www.sharynmccrumb.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/SharynMcCrumbAuthor/.

Light refreshments will be provided and copies of "The Unquiet Grave" will be available for purchase.

For more information, visit: http://www.pearisburglibrary.org/ or https://www.facebook.com/PearisburgPublicLibrary or call 540-921-2556.

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