View the video trailer for Glenda Bailey-Mershon’s Eve’s Garden, then see her at the Winter Park Public Library at 2 p.m. on Sunday, November 2nd.
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Glenda Bailey-Mershon at Winter Park Public Library on Sunday
Glenda Bailey-Mershon will do a Sunday Author Talk at the Winter Park Public Library at 2 p.m. on Sunday, November 2nd.
Bailey-Mershon is an American poet, essayist, novelist, cultural historian, and human rights activist. Born in Upstate South Carolina to a family with roots in the Southern Appalachians, she has explored in poetry and fiction her European, Native American, and Romani heritage. Her published works include the novel, Eve’s Garden; Bird Talk: Poems; saconige/blue smoke: Poems from the Southern Appalachians; A History of the American Women’s Movement: A Study Guide, and four volumes as editor of the Jane’s Stories anthologies by women writers, including Jane’s Stories IV: Bridges and Borders (Jane’s Stories, 2013), which includes work by women in conflicts around the world.
Meet the Author of Eve’s Garden
Eve Gates is intent on finding a way to fly away from the small town where her millworker family lives a wary existence and where her best friend meets tragedy. Tired of battling her loving but close-mouthed mother, Maisie, for details about Evangeline, the grandmother that Eve never knew, and whose death seems to be the heart of the mystery that swirls around her family, Eve heads for New York, for Paris, for all the places she has conjured through her love of reading––only to be called back due to family illnesses. Now she must decide whether she will settle back into her old home town or move into the larger world she has always craved. If she stays, can a delightful romance in a small-minded community provide a large-enough window on life? If she goes, will she ever resolve the mystery that her mother and aunts guard so closely? The path forward lies through a search for the friend she thought was lost forever, and Eve can get there only by connecting with the grandmother she never knew.
Visit with author Glenda Bailey-Mershon at 2 p.m. on Sunday, November 2nd at the Winter Park Public Library. She’ll read from Eve’s Garden and will have copies available for purchase and signing.
Sunday Author Talk by Glenda Bailey-Mershon
The author of Eve’s Garden, Glenda Bailey-Mershon, will appear at the Winter Park Public Library on Sunday, November 2nd at 2 p.m. to read and sign books.
Eve Gates has a dilemma. Her best friend has disappeared from her life and her mother speaks a language she doesn’t know. Eve is a shy, bookish teenager with big dreams, trying to find a way to push past her troubles into some kind of future—a difficult task for a mill town kid with a bag filled with family secrets. What Eve does to solve her problems surprises even herself and leads to an even greater dilemma, one involving the love of her life. And that’s before her mother tells her why she has hidden the family history. Told by three generations, Eve’s Garden brings to life the issues of girlhood and the importance of friendship, family, and community.
About the Author:
Glenda Bailey-Mershon has been a co-owner of a women’s bookstore and press. She has edited four anthologies featuring women writers, published by Jane’s Stories Press Foundation, which she named and helped found. She is featured in Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975 (Barbara Love, Editor, University of Illinois Press, 2006). She was a finalist in Our Stories’ fiction contest; featured author at the Illinois Book Fair; and a grant recipient from both the Illinois and Florida Humanities Councils as well as the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs.