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Author Talk with Jane Goette
Venue: Blacksburg Library, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Sunday, October 16, 2022
Time: 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

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Description:
Blacksburg Library hosts an Author Talk with Jane Goette on Sunday, October 16, 2022.

Blacksburg resident Jane Goette will be here to speak about her recently-published book, "A River Road Memoir", a journey through a young girl’s idyllic childhood in the rural South to her restless adolescence when the Civil Rights struggle becomes urgent and personal to her family.

Book Synopsis: "A River Road Memoir is a journey through a young girl’s idyllic childhood in the rural South to her restless adolescence when the Civil Rights struggle becomes urgent and personal to her family. The unfolding story is told through the second daughter’s eyes. Jane is a serious child, the one her father calls, 'a tree full of owls,' always thinking, observing, wondering about meanings. Jane is three when the Goettes move into an old house on River Road, bordered by pastures and sugarcane fields with the Mississippi River in front. Invisible threads of history form the tapestry of a story that began before her birth when her mother and father’s families fought on opposite sides of the American Civil War. Unresolved conflicts continue around the family table as the Civil Rights movement evolves, the Vietnam War begins, and chemical plants spring like poison mushrooms along the river."

Admission is free and all are welcome.

This author event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/PJmqLZ1b/image.png.

For more information, visit: http://www.montgomery-floyd.lib.va.us/ or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Blacksburg-Library/152248358735 or call 540-552-8246.