Buxton Books Presents
An In-Store Conversation with Colleen Oakley and Cassandra King Conroy
celebrating The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise!
Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 6pm
Colleen Oakley, USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island and Before I Go, is coming to Buxton Books! Colleen will be in the bookstore with us to celebrate the release of her new novel - The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise - a story of intergenerational friendship (and hijinx) between an aimless 21-year-old and the surprisingly mysterious elderly woman she becomes a caregiver for. Joining Colleen to talk about her novel is the brilliant Cassandra King Conroy - author of multiple fiction titles, including The Sunday Wife, and the memoir Tell Me a Story, which documents her life married to the late Pat Conroy.
After the conversation, both Colleen and Cassandra will be hanging around to answer audience questions and sign and personalize books!
Tickets are available as A Book is Your Ticket (your purchase of the book covers your admission into the event) and a $5 General Admission ticket that does not include a book.
Come join us on Thursday, April 13 beginning at 6:00 pm, for a glass of wine and what is sure to be both a humorous and heartfelt conversation about writing, roadtrips, self-discovery (or re-discovery), jewel thieves, and the power of friendship!
ABOUT THE MOSTLY TRUE STORY OF TANNER & LOUISE:
One of Southern Living‘s Most Anticipated 2023 Releases
One of Today’s Most Anticipated 2023 Releases
An unforgettable pairing of a college dropout and an eighty-four-year-old woman on the run from the law in this story full of tremendous heart, humor, and wit from the USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island.
Twenty-one-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitting around in sweatpants and playing video games nineteen hours a day. Since she has no credit or money to speak of, her options are limited, so when an opportunity to work as a live-in caregiver for an elderly woman falls into her lap, she takes it.
One slip on the rug. That’s all it took for Louise Wilt’s daughter to demand that Louise have a full-time nanny living with her. Never mind that she can still walk fine, finish her daily crossword puzzle, and pour the two fingers of vodka she drinks every afternoon. Bottom line: Louise wants a caretaker even less than Tanner wants to be one.
The two start off their living arrangement happily ignoring each other until Tanner starts to notice things—weird things. Like, why does Louise keep her garden shed locked up tighter than a prison? And why is the local news fixated on the suspect of one of the biggest jewelry heists in American history who looks eerily like Louise? And why does Louise suddenly appear in her room, with a packed bag at 1 a.m. insisting that they leave town immediately?
Thus begins the story of a not-to-be-underestimated elderly woman and an aimless young woman who—if they can outrun the mistakes of their past—might just have the greatest adventure of their lives.
ABOUT COLLEEN OAKLEY:
Colleen Oakley is the USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island,You Were There Too, Close Enough to Touch and Before I Go. Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages around the world and won multiple awards including Georgia Author of the Year and The French Reader’s Prize. A former magazine editor for Women’s Health & Fitness and Marie Claire, Colleen lives in Atlanta with her husband, four children, three chickens, and a mutt named Baxter.
ABOUT CASSANDRA KING CONROY:
Cassandra King Conroy is an award-winning author of five novels, a book of nonfiction, numerous short stories, magazine articles, and essays. She has taught creative writing on the college level, conducted corporate writing seminars, and worked as a human interest reporter.
King’s first novel, Making Waves has been through numerous printings since its release in 1995. Her second novel, the New York Times bestseller The Sunday Wife, was a Booksense choice; a Literary Guild and Book-of-the-Month Club selection; a People Magazine Page-Turner of the Week; Books-a-Million President’s Pick; Utah’s Salt Lake Libraries Readers’ Choice Award nominee; and a South Carolina Readers’ Circle selection. As one of Booksense’s top discussion selections, The Sunday Wife was selected by the Nestle Corporation for a national campaign to promote reading groups.
The Same Sweet Girls was the national number one Booksense Selection on its release in January 2005; a Book-of-the-Month Club and Literary Guild selection; and spent several weeks on both the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. Both The Sunday Wife and The Same Sweet Girls were nominated for Southern Independent Booksellers Association’s book of the year award. A fourth novel, Queen of Broken Hearts, set in King’s home state of Alabama and released March 2007, became a Literary Guild and Book-of-the-Month Club Selection as well as a SIBA bestseller. The fifth novel, Moonrise, was a SIBA Okra Pick and a Southern Booksellers bestseller, as was her book of non-fiction, released in 2013, The Same Sweet Girls Guide to Life. Most recently, King has been writing for Coastal Living and Southern Living as well as contributing essays to various anthologies. Her new book is a memoir, Tell Me a Story: My Life With Pat Conroy and it was released from William Morrow on October 29, 2019.
The widow of acclaimed author Pat Conroy, Cassandra resides in Beaufort, South Carolina, where she is honorary chair of the Pat Conroy Literary Center.
