Anthology Book Company hosted acclaimed author Brunonia Barry June 12th. Avid readers of Ms. Barry’s first book, The Lace Reader, and those who are new to her works, gathered to listen, spellbound, as she shared the background and stories of how the “map of her life” led to her success as an author. The Lace Reader quickly became a favorite of book clubs nationwide. The novel is being made into a movie with the screenplay being written now in Hollywood. Who will be cast as Towner?!

Her latest book, The Map of True Places, is being promoted in a nationwide tour. We follow the struggles and questions Zee has in her life, as she comes to grips with her mother’s suicide, her father’s failing health, her career and her engagement. There are elements of celestial navigation, Yeats and Hawthorne…all colliding in a novel that is very readable. It was a book that you wish wouldn’t end, as you feel as close to the characters as you did in The Lace Reader. Clearly Ms. Barry has a gift as a storyteller. She shared there are two more books in the works…a third that she wouldn’t reveal and a fourth, where the stories and characters from The Lace Reader and The Map of True Places come together.

We were so fortunate to have her at our bookstore. It was a joy! Anthology has copies of both of her books for purchase.