Atlanta writer to launch novel at BookCourt
Brooklyn BookBeat
“A Place at the Table” (Touchstone / Simon & Schuster; June 4, 2013) promises to be the break-out book for Susan Rebecca White, whose work has already received the highest praise from renowned Southern authors including Kathyrn Stockett, Lee Smith, and Clyde Edgerton. Though White hails from Atlanta, she will appear in Brooklyn on June 19 for a launch party, Q&A and book signing at Cobble Hill’s BookCourt.
Taking a bold leap of the imagination, White narrates this book from three points of view: Alice Stone, a famous African-American chef whose past is a mystery to those who know her; Bobby Banks, a gay Southern man looking for acceptance in New York City; and Amelia Brighton, a newly-divorced Connecticut woman whose life will be upended by a family secret.
Sweeping from North Carolina in the 1920s through New York’s mid-century café society and the devastating AIDs epidemic of the 1980s to the mansions of Old Greenwich Connecticut “A Place at the Table” connects these characters to each other as they come together in the understanding that when you embrace the thing that makes you different, you become whole.