Beth Gilstrap & Christy Alexander Hallberg

4209-100 Lassiter Mill Road,Raleigh NC 27609

12 November, 2021

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Join us for an outdoor meet & greet with these authors! BETH GILSTRAP, Deadheading & Other StoriesWinner of the Red Hen Press Women’s Prose Award. From the brokenhearted to the afflicted, the women in these often macabre stories fight like hell to find their voices and survive the darkness inherent in the modern South. CHRISTY ALEXANDER HALLBERG, Searching for Jimmy PageThe unraveling of eighteen-year-old Luna Kane’s haunted past begins in the winter of 1988, when her dying great-grandfather, a self-proclaimed faith healer, claims he hears phantom owls crying in the night. “Them owls, like music. Can you hear the music?” he implores her in his final moments, triggering Luna’s repressed memory of her dead mother’s obsession with Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin’s legendary guitar wiz-ard. Desperate to learn the truth about her mother’s suicide, to tease fact from family lore in order to weave her own personal narrative, Luna embarks on a pilgrimage from her family’s farm in the pines of eastern North Carolina to England, to search for the man whose music her mother held sacred, Jimmy Page ________________________________________ Please note all in-person events are subject to change. Quail Ridge Books is currently following the health and safety guidelines recommended by the CDC and state of North Carolina. Quail Ridge Books is an award-winning, independent bookstore serving Raleigh, North Carolina for 34 years. We love connecting readers with some of their favorite authors.