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South Carolina author Patricia Brandon at Hudson Library
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South Carolina author Patricia Brandon will appear at Hudson Library on Friday August 11 at 11:00 AM to talk about her recent historical fiction release A Rule of Life, the setting based on nearby Camp Merrie Woode. Books will be available for purchase and signing at this free event.
1919. The Great War and the Spanish Flu pandemic have just ended, soon to give way to Prohibition, the riots of Red Summer, the culmination of Women’s Suffrage. A new camp for girls has just begun in the mountains of western North Carolina. Camp counselor Tricia Grimball seeks both adventure and escape from her predictable life back home. What she finds is far more than she could have ever imagined.
Patricia Brandon is home-grown — raised, braised, and cured in a charcuterie of the Deep South, with the wonderful nuances of family, friends, and famously fractured characters. One of only three girls in a host of boy cousins and two brothers, she learned to find her own way somewhere between Southern belle and tomboy. Along the way, she was a counselor at Camp Merrie Woode in the 70s, and she has returned to that setting for A Rule of Life.
After she had raised her girls, and was approaching her 60th birthday, she was stricken with a very rare form of paralysis, a ‘surfer’s stroke.’ Her first book, In The Valley Of Achor, is a view of the first year of life in a wheelchair. She gravitates to historical fiction, as her first two novels can attest.
For more information or to request an accommodation, please call the library at 828-526-3031. Hudson Library, 554 Main Street in Highlands, is open 10:00am-5:30pm Tuesday through Friday and 10:00am-4:00pm on Saturday.
