Event

Dinner with Donna Everhart

The Friends of the Stanly Co. Public Library present Donna Everhart as the featured speaker for this years' event. The dinner will be held on Sept. 20, 2018 at 6:30 PM in the Family Education Center of Carolina Healthcare System Stanly located on the corner of Hawthorne and Second St in Albemarle NC. The dinner will include an autographed copy of The Road to Bittersweet by Donna Everhart The cost for the dinner and book is $30.00. Reservations must be made by Sept. 3, 2018.

Donna Everharts debut novel, The Education of Dixie Dupree, established her firmly as a strong new voice in
Southern fiction when its late-2016 release was met with enormous acclaim, including an IndieNext List selection,
Business Insiders Insider Pick and Amazon Best Books of the Month.
Her second novel released on December 26, 2017 isThe Road to Bittersweet, which has already received a SIBA TRIO
selection and been named a Publishers Marketplace Buzz Book. Set in the Carolinas in the 1940s, The Road to Bittersweet is a beautifully written, evocative account of a young woman reckoning not just with the unforgiving
landscape, but with the rocky emotional terrain that leads from innocence to wisdom. It is a story
of survival, self-discovery, family and love told through the rich writing of an authentic new voice in South