Highly acclaimed author Andrew Lawler will discuss his latest book, The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke, at Fiction Addiction on Monday, June 18th, at 2:00 pm.
Tickets for this event are $31.75, admit one, and include a copy of The Secret Token. Tickets and books can be purchased online, at the store, or by calling Fiction Addiction at 864-675-0540.
In The Secret Token, 115 men, women, and children arrive at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina in 1587 to establish the first English settlement in the New World. But when the new colony’s leader returned to Roanoke from a resupply mission, his settlers had vanished, leaving behind only a single clue-a “secret token” etched into a tree.
What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke? That question has consumed historians, archeologists, and amateur sleuths for four hundred years. In The Secret Token, Andrew Lawler sets out on a quest to determine the fate of the settlers, finding fresh leads as he encounters a host of characters obsessed with resolving the enigma. In the course of his journey, Lawler examines how the Lost Colony came to haunt our national consciousness.
Incisive and absorbing, The Secret Token offers a new understanding not just of the Lost Colony and its fate, but of how its absence continues to define — and divide — America.