Join us as we welcome award winning author Virginia Pye to speak to us about her new book The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann on Thursday February 22nd at 6:30pm at Sandwich Public Library. This is a free event, but registration is required and space is limited. Registration can be completed HERE or by calling Titcomb's Bookshop at 508-888-2331.

Books will be for sale at the event, and Ms. Pye will sign them after her presentation. Those who are unable to attend the event may order signed copies below by writing "signed copy" in the order comments, or by calling 508-888-2331.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Victoria Swann is a successful author of romance and adventure novels who becomes a champion of women's rights as she takes on the literary establishment and finds her true voice, both on and off the page. Everything changes for Victoria when she goes against her publisher's demands and abandons her frivolous style to tell her own story. Her new, young, Harvard-bred editor becomes her unexpected ally as she fights for the women who have been her faithful readers. Set in Gilded Age Boston, The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann shows writing and reading as acts of defiance and revision in life and revision on the page as intimately entwined.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Award-winning author Virginia Pye has a strong affinity with Boston’s literary landscape. She grew up in the area and, upon returning to Cambridge years later, was struck by the way the city’s bookishness contrasts with other places where she’s lived. People there read and love books—a passion that’s clear from the fabulous independent bookstores to the historic markers and monuments that highlight famous local authors, including Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Robert Frost, George Santayana, and W.E.B. Dubois.

Virginia Pye’s story collection Shelf Life of Happiness won the 2019 IPPY Gold Medal for Short Fiction and her two historical novels set in China, Dreams of the Red Phoenix and River of Dust, also received literary awards. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is Fiction Editor at Pangyrus and has taught writing at NYU, UPenn, and at GrubStreet Writing Center in Boston. www.virginiapye.com ABOUT THE BOOK: The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann.