Strangers at the Feast: A Novel

A Perrot Library & Just Books Event
at Perrot Library
90 Sound Beach Avenue
Old Greenwich
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
7:30pm

JENNIFER VANDERBES – STRANGERS AT THE FEAST: A NOVEL

Author Talk & Book Signing

Just Books and the Perrot Library welcome Jennifer Vanderbes as she introduces her second novel Strangers at the Feast.  This book sets it sights on an America tradition – Thanksgiving dinner – and how a neurotic family tries its best to make it through.  In her gripping new book, Jennifer Vanderbes masterfully lays bare the fraught lives of this complex cast of characters and the lengths to which they will go to protect their families.

Strangers at the Feast is at once a heartbreaking portrait of a family struggling to find happiness and an exploration of the hidden costs of the American dream.  Published to international acclaim, Jennifer Vanderbes’ first book, Easter Island, was “best book of 2003″ by the Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor and was hailed as “one of those rare novels that appeals equally to heart, mind, and soul,” by the San Francisco Chronicle. In her second novel, this powerful writer reaches new heights of storytelling. This page-turner wrestles with the most important issues of our time-race, class, and above all else, family. Strangers at the Feast will leave readers haunted and deeply affected.