Author Sarah Bird Discusses Her Book: Last Dance on the Starlight Pier

205 West 6th Street,Georgetown TX 78626

16 May, 2023

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Join Sarah as she reveals the research, the history and the writing behind this wonderful book. You're all in for a treat during this special evening. About the Book: Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one woman—and a nation—struggling to be reborn from the ashes.July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She’d come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a nurse. When that dream is cruelly thwarted, Evie is swept into the alien world of dance marathons. All that she has been denied—a family, a purpose, even love—waits for her there in the place she dreads most: the spotlight.Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a sweeping novel that brings to spectacular life the enthralling worlds of both dance marathons and the family-run empire of vice that was Galveston in the Thirties. Unforgettable characters tell a story that is still deeply resonant today as America learns what Evie learns, that there truly isn’t anything this country can’t do when we do it together. That indomitable spirit powers a story that is a testament to the deep well of resilience in us all that allows us to not only survive the hardest of hard times, but to find joy, friends, and even family, in them.About Sarah Bird:Sarah was born in 1949 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her father was an officer in the U.S. Air Force. Sarah and her family—a Catholic family of eight, including her mother, Colista Bird—travelled with him around the the world during her childhood. She earned a BA degree from the University of New Mexico and an MA degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. Sarah and her husband, George Jones, live in Austin, Texas, with their son and, arguably, the cutest corgi in the world. And yes, Sarah was a go-go dancer in Tokyo for two weeks.