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Book Your Lunch with debut author Taylor Polites on Saturday, February 11th, from 12-2 pm at The Lazy Goat in downtown Greenville. Tickets are $25 each and must be purchased in advance at http://www.bookyourlunch.com or by calling Fiction Addiction at 864-675-0540.Dive into the antebellum South in Taylor Polites' debut novel, "The Rebel Wife" (Simon & Schuster, hardcover, $25.00, on sale 2/7/12), about a young widow trying to survive in the deep South of the Reconstruction era. Augusta Branson was born into antebellum Southern nobility during a time of wealth and prosperity, but now all that is gone, and she is left standing in the ashes of a broken civilization. When her scalawag husband dies suddenly of a mysterious blood plague, she must fend for herself and her young son. Slowly she begins to wake to the reality of her new life: her social standing is stained by her marriage; she is alone and unprotected in a community that is being destroyed by racial prejudice and violence; the fortune she thought she would inherit does not exist; and the deadly blood fever is spreading fast. Nothing is as she believed, everyone she knows is hiding something, and Augusta needs someone to trust. Somehow she must find the truth amid her own illusions about the past and the courage to cross the boundaries of hate, so strong, dangerous, and very close to home. Using the Southern Gothic tradition to explode literary archetypes like the chivalrous Southern gentleman, the good mammy, and the defenseless Southern belle, "The Rebel Wife" shatters the myths that still cling to the antebellum South and creates and unforgettable heroine for our time. Taylor M. PolitesTaylor Polites is a novelist living in Providence, Rhode Island, with his small chihuhua, Clovis. He graduated in June 2010 with his MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University. He has lived in Provincetown, Massachusetts, New York City, St. Louis, and the Deep South. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in History and French and spent a year studying in Caen, France. He has covered arts and news for a variety of local newspapers and magazines, including the Cape Codder, InNewsWeekly, Bird's Eye View (the in-flight magazine of CapeAir), artscope Magazine, and Provincetown Arts Magazine. "The Rebel Wife" is his first novel. If you cannot make the event, you can reserve a personalized copy of "The Rebel Wife" by contacting Fiction Addiction in advance at 864-675-0540 or at info@fiction-addiction.com.
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