Bestselling author of True Colors and Firefly Lane KRISTIN HANNAH will speak about and sign her new novel, Winter Garden.

Over the past few years, bestselling author Kristin Hannah has emerged as one of the most successful and adored novelists in the country, particularly in her ability to illustrate the complicated relationships that – for better or for worse – bind people together.

In her latest novel, Winter Garden, Kristin parses out the dense emotional terrain between mothers and daughters through a sweeping, multi-generational, multi-cultural saga that asks whether a woman can truly know herself if she doesn’t share a relationship with her mother.

Winter Garden focuses primarily on Meredith and Nina Whitson, two adult sisters who, throughout their lifetime, were denied any real affection from their steely immigrant mother, Anya (who seemingly saved all her love for her husband). While the girls’ father was a warm and loving man, Anya held her daughters at arm's length, never letting down her icy Russian reserve. The only connection Meredith and Nina enjoyed with Anya was the occasional Russian fairy tale she would tell them as children. But only at night, only in the dark and never accompanied by any tangible expression of love.

Only after the death of their beloved father, when the sisters are forced back into the company of their rapidly declining mother, are they motivated to make one final attempt to learn who Anya is. Who she really was. And as they look back on one of Anya’s cryptic fairy tales – the mysterious story of the Snow Maiden – does the truth about her life finally emerge, offering one final chance to bridge the massive generational divide between the sisters and their mother.

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