Presented by Valley Bookseller & Literature Lovers’ Night Out
Saturday, July 13, 2024
11 am Doors // 12 pm Event
All Ages
$20 (+taxes and fees) Advance General Admission (includes $10 coupon towards the purchase of The Briar Club, available for purchase at the event)
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New York Times bestselling historical fiction author Kate Quinn, author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code, comes to Minneapolis in support of her latest novel, The Briar Club, a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boarding house during the McCarthy era.
Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels, all-female boarding house in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into an unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss, whose facade of perfect wife and mother covers gaping inner wounds; policeman’s daughter Nora, who finds herself entangled with a shadowy gangster; frustrated baseball star Beatrice, whose career has come to an end along with the women’s baseball league of WWII; and poisonous, gung-ho Arlene, who has thrown herself into McCarthy’s Red Scare.
Grace’s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm for all their lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own. When a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst?
Capturing the paranoia of the McCarthy Era and evoking the changing roles for women in postwar America, The Briar Club is an intimate and thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test.
Kate Quinn is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction. A native of southern California, she attended Boston University where she earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Classical Voice. She has written four novels in the Empress of Rome Saga, and two books in the Italian Renaissance, before turning to the 20th century with The Alice Network, The Huntress, The Rose Code, and The Diamond Eye. All have been translated into multiple languages. Kate and her husband now live in San Diego with three rescue dogs.
Compulsively readable — THE WASHINGTON POST
Captivating and refreshing — BUZZFEED
Twisty and evocative — POPSUGAR
Engrossing, suspenseful, and authentic — NPR
Kate Quinn [is] one of the best artists of the genre. — BOOK PAGE
Mandatory reading for fans of historical fiction. — GOODREADS
