Ladies, Lunch & Literacy Welcomes Lily Brooks-Dalton

320 South Catalina Avenue,Redondo Beach CA 90277

20 January, 2023

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Ladies, Lunch, and Literacy is delighted to invite you to meet Lily Brooks-Dalton on Friday, January 20, 2023. Join us at 11:30am PT for an informal meet and greet with Lily and other fellow readers before our formal event begins at 12:00pm PT sharp! About Lily Brooks-Dalton Lily Brooks-Dalton's first novel Good Morning, Midnight has been translated into seventeen languages and was the inspiration for the film adaptation The Midnight Sky​. She is also the author of a memoir, Motorcycles I’ve Loved, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. The Light Pirate, her second novel and third book, is forthcoming in December 2022. A former writer-in-residence at The Kerouac House and The Studios of Key West, she currently lives in Los Angeles. About #1 Indie Pick, The Light Pirate “A luminous and wrenching portrait of a frighteningly possible future," The Light Pirate is a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman’s lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world (Booklist, starred review). Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state’s infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line worker, his pregnant wife, Frida, and their two sons, Flip and Lucas, prepare for the worst. When the boys go missing just before the hurricane hits, Kirby heads out into the high winds in search of his children. Left alone, Frida goes into premature labor and gives birth to an unusual child, Wanda, whom she names after the catastrophic storm that ushers her into a society closer to collapse than ever before. As Florida continues to unravel, Wanda grows. Moving from childhood to adulthood, adapting not only to the changing landscape, but also to the people who stayed behind in a place abandoned by civilization, Wanda loses family, gains community, and ultimately, seeks adventure, love, and purpose in a place remade by nature. Told in four parts—power, water, light, and time—The Light Pirate mirrors the rhythms of the elements and the sometimes quick, sometimes slow dissolution of the world as we know it. It is a meditation on the changes we would rather not see, the future we would rather not greet, and a call back to the beauty and violence of an untamable wilderness. The Light Pirate is available now from Creating Conversations. Please come by and pick up your copy before lunch so you can start reading immediately!