Conversation with Rachel Beanland, Author of The Half Life

• Thursday, July 16 @ 5:00 pm
• Lewes Public Library, Lewes, DE

Join Lewes Public Library and Browseabout Books in-person at the library or online for a conversation with Rachel Beanland, author of The Half Life. This novel, set on a remote Italian island, is about a navy wife’s reckoning with power, love, and the price of staying silent in the Atomic Age. Atmospheric, sexy, and quietly defiant, The Half Life is a story of love, complicity, and awakening — of one woman forced to choose between loyalty to her husband and country and to the Italian locals who show her the high cost of American exceptionalism. Joining Rachel in conversation is Rachel Parker, a Delaware-based writer, entrepreneur, and co-founder of The Parker Group.

Beanland is the author of The House Is on Fire and Florence Adler Swims Forever, which won the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction. She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and earned her MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives with her family in Richmond, Virginia.

NOTE: this session is available to attend in-person or through Zoom. You MUST REGISTER and indicate which you prefer.

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