Washington journalist Ashley E. Sweeney will be touring Southeast to promote her debut novel, \u201cEliza Waite.\u201d Sweeney will hold booksignings at three Southeast bookstores as well as a book talk at the downtown Juneau library.<\/p>\n
Released by She Writes Press, \u201cEliza Waite\u201d is part diary, part recipe file and part Gold Rush history. Polly Myers with the University of Washington History Department has called it \u201ca lively and compelling narrative of one woman\u2019s quest to navigate the social turmoil of the late 19th century Pacific Northwest\u201d and Booklist has praised it as \u201ca beautifully written work of historical fiction … Readers will be immersed in Eliza\u2019s world, which Sweeney has so authentically and skillfully rendered.\u201d<\/p>\n
About the book: \u201cIn 1898, a woman\u2019s place was in the home, but for Eliza Waite, who has shamed her parents and who also recently lost her husband and only child, there is no \u201chome,\u201d only refuge on a remote island in the San Juan Islands of Washington State.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith a name change and no small dose of courage, Eliza boards the SS Ketchikan to the Klondike in search of her future, joining a rough crowd of fortune hunters, businessmen, gold diggers, con men, and prostitutes. She lands in Skagway, where she plans to start a bakery. With the support of new friends from unlikely quarters, Eliza flourishes\u2026 She has great hope for her new life \u2014 until a familiar face haunts the streets of Skagway, threatening to undermine all she has built.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sweeney will be signing books from 10 a.m.-noon on Monday, Aug. 8, at Parnassus Books in Ketchikan; from 4:30-5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 9, at Hearthside Books in the Nugget Mall; and from 1-3 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 10, at Skaguay News Depot & Books. She will hold a book talk at 6 p.m. on Aug. 9 at the downtown Juneau library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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