Author Talk: "Rose Alone" by Sheila Flynn DeCosse

159 Main Street,East Hampton NY 11937

08 January, 2023

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Reviewer Evan Harris, writing in THE EAST HAMPTON STAR, writes about this book, “As the novel progresses, Rose emerges as a resourceful fighter, adaptable and capable in her new situation in the home of an East Hampton family, where she shares quarters with a young enslaved woman called Pegg.” Richard I. Barons, Chief Curator, East Hampton Historical Society, writes, “this is a very touching tale that seems so appropriate for the present time.” As Rose struggles to find a way to exist in Colonial East Hampton, she is forbidden to speak in her native French and Rose revolts in anger. After she acquiesces and learns English, some local people still react to her ‘foreign’ ways, as often happens to immigrants today. Sheila Flynn-DeCosse, author of nonfiction, fiction and poetry articles, travelled to Acadia in Nova Scotia, to develop the story. There, she learned more about “Le Grand Derangement,” the pitiless “solution” the English government devised to exile an entire Acadian population and bring Acadians to Long Island and other English settlements. Talk will be held in the Baldwin Room.