Please join us on Wednesday, January 24 in the bookstore for the inaugural event in our new series, Bookends with Polly Buxton & Victoria Benton Frank!
These bookclub discussions will be full of conversation, community and cocktails! Bookstore owner Polly and beloved local author Victoria will kickoff the evening with a conversation about the featured title before opening the floor up to questions and a discussion with the audience. These events are an incredible opportunity to be in an intimate setting for an in-depth discussion of favorite books, both new and old, with other readers, writers, and book people!
For the first installment, Polly and Victoria will be discussing Victoria’s debut novel, MY MAGNOLIA SUMMER. Our second selection - for our March Bookends event - will be revealed at the January conversation.
For this event, we are offering three ticket types 1. MY MAGNOLIA SUMMER hardcover book is your ticket 2. MY MAGNOLIA SUMMER paperback pre-order (pub date: June 18, 2024) 3. $8 general admission.
Be sure to buy your ticket(s) early as we anticipate this event selling out quickly!
To purchase your ticket, please click here.
About My Magnolia Summer:
A tale of the complicated relationships between mothers, daughters and let's not forget, sisters—this enchanting novel will bring romance and sunshine to your summer reading list.” — Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author
Escape to the South Carolina Lowcountry, where family bonds and hidden secrets run deep. In this gripping tale of self-discovery, Victoria Benton Frank introduces us to Maggie, struggling to find her place in the world when she receives a phone call bringing her back to her hometown of Sullivan's Island.
In New York City winter never seems to loosen its hold and for South Carolina transplant Maggie (born Magnolia after the fairest summer flower) the balmy beach weather of April back home on Sullivan’s Island feels like a distant memory. Until a phone call from her sister, Violet, changes everything.
Gran, the treasured matriarch, has fallen into a coma after a car accident caused by Maggie’s troubled mother, Lily. But once Maggie returns, she finds that her hometown of Sullivan’s Island holds even more secrets. The Magic Lantern, the restaurant owned and run by generations of women in her family, is now rudderless, and her sister seems headed for a savage breakup.
Once she is between the marsh grasses and dunes of South Carolina, she feels herself changing like the Atlantic tides, rediscovering the roots she left behind, and a new and different version of herself—one who can see how a minor crash into the back of a very handsome farmer’s truck may become fortunate. Or perhaps it’s even… fate?
When the three generations of South Carolina women join forces—the family pillar Gran, troubled Lily, impulsive Violet, and redoubtable Maggie—anything is possible.
With stunning descriptions of the magic of the Lowcountry, this novel will transport you to a world of treasured family traditions and unexpected twists of fate.
About Victoria Benton Frank:
Victoria Benton Frank was born in New York City, raised in Montclair, New Jersey, but considers herself to have dual residency in the Lowcountry. She is a graduate of the College of Charleston and the French Culinary Institute. Victoria worked in restaurants in New York before returning to Charleston, South Carolina, which she considers home, with her husband, two kids, and a giant mutt. When she isn’t writing, she is reading, cooking, or chasing her children.