Avid Bookshop Jessica Handler: THE MAGNETIC GIRL

Avid Bookshop presents Jessica Handler for her novel THE MAGNETIC GIRL. This event will take place on Friday, May 10, 2019, from 6:30-7:30pm at our Prince Avenue location and is free and open to the public. We encourage you to purchase a copy of the book to get it signed by the author!

You can purchase this event book online from Avid Bookshop here: https://www.avidbookshop.com/book/9781938235481

ABOUT THE BOOK:

In rural north Georgia two decades after the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Lulu Hurst reaches high into her father's bookshelf and pulls out an obscure book, THE TRUTH OF MESMERIC INFLUENCE. Deemed gangly and undesirable, Lulu wants more than a lifetime of caring for her disabled baby brother, Leo, with whom she shares a profound and supernatural mental connection.

"I only wanted to be Lulu Hurst, the girl who captivated her brother until he could walk and talk and stand tall on his own. Then I would be the girl who could leave."

Lulu begins to "captivate" her friends and family, controlling their thoughts and actions for brief moments at a time. After Lulu convinces a cousin she conducts electricity with her touch, her father sees a unique opportunity. He grooms his tall and indelicate daughter into an electrifying new woman: The Magnetic Girl. Lulu travels the Eastern seaboard, captivating enthusiastic crowds by lifting grown men in parlor chairs and throwing them across the stage with her "electrical charge."

While adjusting to life on the vaudeville stage, Lulu harbors a secret belief that she can use her newfound gifts, as well as her growing notoriety, to heal her brother. As she delves into the mysterious book's pages, she discovers keys to her father's past and her own future--but how will she harness its secrets to heal her family?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Jessica Handler is the author of BRAVING THE FIRE: A GUIDE TO WRITING ABOUT GRIEF and INVISIBLE SISTERS: A MEMOIR, which was named one of the "Twenty Five Books All Georgians Should Read" and ATLANTA magazine's "Best Memoir of 2009." Jessica writes essays and nonfiction features that have appeared on NPR, in TIN HOUSE, DRUNKEN BOAT, FULL GROWN PEOPLE, BREVITY, NEWSWEEK, THE WASHINGTON POST, and MORE Magazine.

Friday, May 10, 2019

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