Please join us for the first event in Save Ellis Island’s Author Series! Best Selling Author of Historic Fiction, Susan L. Meissner, will perform a reading of “A Fall of Marigolds” followed by a Q&A Session on June 23, 2020 at 7:30 PM. Register today for this Free virtual event!
In A Fall of Marigolds, Meissner beautifully weaves the delicate stories of two women living during different centuries, experiencing events unique to their respective time in history.
September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, Nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss mirrors hers, she becomes intrigued by a name embroidered onto the scarf he carries...and finds herself caught in a dilemma that compels her to confront the truth about the assumptions she’s made. What she learns could devastate her—or free her.
September 2011. On Manhattan’s Upper West Side, widow Taryn Michaels has convinced herself that she is living fully, working in a charming specialty fabric store and raising her daughter alone. Then a long-lost photograph appears in a national magazine, and she is forced to relive the terrible day her husband died in the collapse of the World Trade Towers…the same day a stranger reached out and saved her. Will a chance reconnection and a century-old scarf open Taryn’s eyes to the larger forces at work in her life?
Susan L. Meissner is a USA Today bestselling author of historic fiction with more than half a million books in print in fifteen languages.
Visit Susan on her website: http://susanlmeissner.com on Twitter at @SusanMeissner or Instagram as @soozmeissner or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/susan.meissner.
This is a Free virtual event hosted by Save Ellis Island. By donating, all proceeds from the event go directly to supporting Save Ellis Island's mission to restore the 29 buildings in the Historic Hospital Complex.
