Anbara Salam to Discuss Her New Coming-of-Age Novel via Zoom (6/9)
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Anbara Salam, author of BELLADONNA (Berkley), will be in conversation with Tina Panik at a virtual event, co-sponsored by the Avon Free Public Library and the Prince Thomas Savoy Italian Club, via Zoom on Tuesday, June 9 at 2:00pm (ET).
Salam’s BELLADONNA hypnotizing coming-of-age novel set in 1950s Italy that stares into the heart of longing and at the friendships that have the power to save and destroy us. Isabella is beautiful, inscrutable, and popular. Her best friend, Bridget, keeps quietly to the fringes of their Connecticut Catholic school, watching everything and everyone, but most especially Isabella.
In 1957, when the girls graduate, they land coveted spots at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Pentila in northern Italy, a prestigious art history school on the grounds of a silent convent. There, free of her claustrophobic home and the town that will always see her and her Egyptian mother as outsiders, Bridget discovers she can reinvent herself as anyone she desires… perhaps even someone Isabella could desire in return. But as that glittering year goes on, Bridget begins to suspect Isabella is keeping a secret from her, one that will change the course of their lives forever.
Ms. Salam is half-Palestinian and half-Scottish and grew up in London. She has a PhD in Theology and is now living and working in Oxford.
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