Author Daisy Florin in Conversation with Terri Trespicio at Athena Books!

228 Sound Beach Avenue,Greenwich CT 06870

01 March, 2023

Description

Please join us for a conversation with debut author Daisy Alpert Florin and award-winning writer and speaker Terri Trespicio about Daisy's new novel, My Last Innocent Year (on sale Feb. 14th). A coming-of-age story about a young woman learning to trust her voice and move toward independence, the book has received a ton of advanced praise and has been listed as a highly anticipated release on several book lists. Daisy Alpert Florin attended Dartmouth College and received graduate degrees from Columbia University and Bank Street Graduate School of Education. She was a recipient of the 2016 Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellowship at Sarah Lawrence College and was a 2019–20 fellow in the BookEnds novel revision fellowship, where she worked with founding director Susan Scarf Merrell. A native New Yorker, Daisy lives in Connecticut with her family. My Last Innocent Year is her debut novel. Terri Trespicio is an award-winning writer, speaker, brand advisor, and author of Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You. A top-rated speaker, she has also performed stand-up all over New York City. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Emerson College and lives in Manhattan. Advance Praise for My Last Innocent Year: “A brilliantly crafted campus novel”—Kirkus Reviews “This beautifully written novel reverberated in my bones.”—CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train “An intimate, intricately constructed coming of-age tale to rival the greats of the genre, from The Great Gatsby to The Catcher in the Rye.” —JOANNA RAKOFF, author of My Salinger Year Your ticket to this event includes wine and light dessert.