NEW!
Apr 2021 Book Program
Thu, Apr 08
|Online Event
Go back to 1940s rural Georgia as Kristine F. Anderson discusses her debut novel about the events that fracture a family and leave a boy to tell a crooked truth.


Time & Location
Apr 08, 2021, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Online Event
About The Event
About the Author
Educator, journalist, and novelist Kristine F. Anderson has spent most of her life in Georgia and knows the setting of her debut novel well from family and friends. She holds a Ph.D. in Communicative Arts from Georgia State University and has taught in high school, at Shorter College, and at the Southern Polytechnic State University, which is now a college within Kennesaw State University. After writing numerous freelance magazine and newspaper articles, Kristine began to work on a novel that had been on her mind for a long time.
At a family cookout in south Georgia some fifteen years ago, an elderly relative told Kristine a disturbing story about a boy born there in the 1930s with Down syndrome. She wrote some notes on napkins, and the story stayed with her. Her interest was strengthened by her work with a school boy with the syndrome. Kristine ultimately…