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The Precious Jules: a virtual Fireside Adventure featuring critically-acclaimed author Shawn Nocher

June 30, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Free – $32.99

About the Event

Have you ever wondered where lies that fine line between selfishness and what passes for love?

Critically-acclaimed author Shawn Nocher explores that complicated question in her new book, The Precious Jules. Settle in with a glass of wine or hot cocoa, curl up in your favorite chair, and get ready to chat live on Fireside with Shawn to discuss her book, ask questions, and converse live “on stage.”

To join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform, Fireside, simply purchase a book or register below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with Laila. With other devices, you can still listen live here to the broadcast.

Your Adventure includes a hardcover copy of The Precious Jules, tax, shipping within the U.S., a live Fireside chat with Shawn, and Q&A.

About the Author and Book

Shawn Nocher (pronounced “No-Shay”) is the author of the critically acclaimed novel A Hand to Hold in Deep Water. Her short stories and nonfiction articles have been published in SmokeLong Quarterly, Pithead Chapel, MoonPark Review, Writer’s Digest, and Electric Literature, among others. She teaches in the Master of Arts writing program at Johns Hopkins University, has given wings to two children, and lives with her husband and an assortment of sassy rescue animals in Baltimore, Maryland, where she writes in a room of her own.

Shawn’s new novel, The Precious Jules, is a deeply felt family narrative that examines the fine line between selfishness and what passes for love.

After nearly two hundred years of housing retardants, as they were once known, the Beechwood Institute is closing the doors on its dark history, and the complicated task of reassigning residents has begun. Ella Jules, having arrived at Beechwood at the tender age of eight, must now rely on the state to decide her future. Ella’s aging parents have requested that she be returned to her childhood home, much to the distress of Ella’s siblings, but more so to Lynetta, her beloved caretaker who has been by her side for decades.

The five adult Jules children, haunted by their early memories of their sister, and each dealing with the trauma of her banishment in their own flawed way, are converging on the family home, arriving from the far corners of the country — secrets in tow — to talk some sense into their aging parents and get to the root of this inexplicable change of heart.

This family story asks what is best for one child in light of what is perceived as the greater good, and just what is the collective legacy of buried family secrets, shame, and helplessness. The Precious Jules is a deeply felt family narrative that will make you fall in love with these flawed and imperfect characters standing on the threshold of an awakening they never expected.

 

About Fireside

We are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions, author talks, book clubs, special presentations, and much more. During the course of WWII, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country.

While once a thing of the past, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star, Mark Cuban, and Falon Fatemi, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai, Fireside Chats are back, bigger and better than ever, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate!

Fireside Chat is the exclusive, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together, we will engage in discussion, debate, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium.

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Date:
June 30, 2022
Time:
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm PDT
Cost:
Free – $32.99
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