This is a hybrid event and will be hosted in-person in the Community Meeting Room at West Hollywood Library as well as on Zoom. Please register at the link below to receive the link to the m eeting via email.
\nhttps://library-lacounty-gov.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcO ivqzwpGNDyGiDsipuoB54noYxGsxYg
\nCo-sponsored by the City of Wes t Hollywood Women's Advisory Board\, Women and Books Book Club meets on th e first Tuesday of the month to discuss literary works by and focused on w omen.
\nPlease contact the library to borrow a print copy of the boo k. eBook and eAudiobook are available throu gh Libby app/OverDrive.
\nSummary provid ed by the publisher:
\nRichmond\, Virginia 1811. It's the height of the winter social season\, the General Assembly is in session\, and many o f Virginia's gentleman planters\, along with their wives and children\, ha ve made the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling aw ay the darkest days of the year. At the city's only theater\, the Charlest on-based Placide &\; Green Company puts on two plays a night to meet th e demand of a populace that's done looking for enlightenment at the front of a church.
\nOn the night after Christmas\, the theater is packed with more than six hundred holiday revelers. In the third-floor boxes sits newly widowed Sally Henry Campbell\, who is glad for any opportunity to r elive the happy times she shared with her husband. One floor away\, in the colored gallery\, Cecily Patterson doesn't give a whit about the play but is grateful for a four-hour reprieve from a life that has recently gone f rom bad to worse. Backstage\, young stagehand Jack Gibson hopes that\, if he can impress the theater's managers\, he'll be offered a permanent job w ith the company. And on the other side of town\, blacksmith Gilbert Hunt d reams of one day being able to bring his wife to the theater\, but he'll h ave to buy her freedom first.
\nWhen the theater goes up in flames i n the middle of the performance\, Sally\, Cecily\, Jack\, and Gilbert make a series of split-second decisions that will not only affect their own li ves but those of countless others. And in the days following the fire\, as news of the disaster spreads across the United States\, the paths of thes e four people will become forever intertwined.
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