Join us for a book-inspired wine tasting!
We pair the qualities of each wine with a book that shares the same spirit. Your ticket to the tasting, apart from the tastes, includes your choice of one of the featured books. Bottles of the featured wines will be for sale at great prices, too. Plus we’ve got a few authors joining us for a wonderful night.
This event is a crowd favorite, serving as a great date, a perfect girls night out, or treat to yourself. Buy your ticket now and join us on Wednesday, January 24th!
*Refunds or transfers can only be accommodated 48 hours prior to the event.
ABOUT BETH UZINS JOHNSON
Beth Uzins Johnson’s short fiction and essays have appeared in Massachusetts Review, Broad Street, Cincinnati Review, Story Quarterly, Mississippi Review, Southwest Review, “The Best American Essays,” and elsewhere. She was the recipient of the McGinnis-Ritchie Award in nonfiction and holds an MFA in fiction from Queens University of Charlotte. She lives and writes in Chicago, Illinois. Coming Clean is her first novel.
BOOK SUMMARY OF COMING CLEAN
A darkly complex, wildly funny story of haves vs. have-nots and healed vs. healed-nots as cleaning lady Dawn and her friend Matthew embark on a week-long, clandestine photography project–in the houses she cleans Dawn, a self-employed cleaning lady in upstate New York, agrees to pose in the houses she cleans for her friend Matthew’s provocative photography project. Over the course of one week, she and Matthew scour the contents of each home to find inspiration but what she un-covers instead is an unexpected connection to the people who live there: from the insecure Bridget Riley and the recent immigrant Wei Chen to the pretentious Robert McIntyre. But it’s the troubled housewife, Barb Turner, and the contents of her life that finally force Dawn to confront her darkest secret about the death of her fiancé. Coming Clean is a novel of forgive-ness, family, and fresh starts.
ABOUT CARLA DAMRON
CARLA DAMRON is a social worker, advocate and ward-winning author of The Stone Necklace, The Orchid Tattoo, and the Caleb Knowles mystery series. Damron holds an MSW and an MFA. Her careers of social worker and writer are intricately intertwined. Damron is a South Carolina native. Born in Sumter, she currently lives outside of Columbia with her husband and their blended family of assorted animals.
BOOK SUMMARY OF JUSTICE BE DONE
Social worker Caleb Knowles finds himself in the heart of a firestorm of racial tensions and violence in downtown Columbia, SC. When he interviews young Laquan Harwell, the truth behind Laquan’s crime becomes clear – it was born from years of racial mistreatment. However, Laquan’s assault on a white storekeeper lights the match that sets the town on fire: a hate crime sparks protests. Protests erupt into riots.
Downtown becomes a war zone.
The murder of a racist police officer further fuels the violence, and Caleb is deeply entangled in a desperate search for justice. As the riots escalate, Caleb’s brother Sam is injured, leading Caleb to take rash actions that put his career on the line.
As he uncovers the truth about the police officer’s death, Caleb’s efforts to save a client thrust him into the eye of the storm and endanger his life. Will justice prevail, or will the hate-spawned violence take more lives?
