Award-winning novelist to speak at luncheon

Posted 8/21/12

HONESDALE, PA — Award-winning novelist Tom Bouman will speak at a luncheon sponsored by the Friends of the Wayne County Public Library on Sunday, April 6 at 12 noon at the Hotel Wayne. His …

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HONESDALE, PA — Award-winning novelist Tom Bouman will speak at a luncheon sponsored by the Friends of the Wayne County Public Library on Sunday, April 6 at 12 noon at the Hotel Wayne. His presentation will blend a talk on rural American crime fiction, excerpts from new work that reflect that theme, and his personal history with a few old-time tunes on guitar or mandolin. He will also sign books that will be available for sale. The deadline to purchase tickets is April 2.

Bouman is the author of the acclaimed “Dry Bones in the Valley,” a debut rural noir mystery, which won both the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller and the 2015 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Bouman, a former editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Hachette Group, recently moved from New York City with his family to his childhood home on a dirt road in Susquehanna County, the inspiration for the natural and social setting of his novel.

The murder mystery is set in Northeast Pennsylvania in a fictional Wild Thyme Township in Holebrook County. Its themes include the interconnecting familial roots, present day prejudices, and the tensions among hardscrabble poverty, drug crime, the ramshackle beauty of the environment and the financial comfort afforded by hydro-fracking and the leasing of gas wells.

Tickets cost $20 and must be purchased by the end of Saturday, April 2 at the Wayne County Public Library, 1406 N. Main St., or by credit card: call 570/253-1220.

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