WordSprouts is the Park Slope Food Co-op’s reading series featuring Coop authors.

Please join us for the newly revived WordSprouts in partnership with the Old Stone House. WordSprouts is a long-running Park Slope Food Coop author series, where Coop authors share thoughts about their works and process. All events are free and open to the public (you do not need to be a Coop member to attend), and Coop snacks will be served.

This month, we’ll be hearing from Fran Hawthorne, who has been writing novels since she was four years old, though she was sidetracked for a few decades by journalism. During that award-winning career, she wrote eight award-winning nonfiction books, mainly about consumer activism, the drug industry, and the financial world, and was also an editor or regular contributor for The New York Times, Institutional Investor, and many other publications.

But she never abandoned her true love: fiction. Her first two novels, The Heirs and I Meant to Tell You, were published in 2018 and 2022 and together won or were named a finalist for nine awards.

HER DAUGHTER, her third novel — newly published by Black Rose Writing — is the story of a family where the father deliberately gaslights the daughter to alienate her from the mother. Kirkus Reviews calls it “a deep dive into the pain of separation and hope for reconciliation conveyed with grace, realism, and empathy”.

She has also been a member of the Food Coop since 1987 (with a child-raising break). Mostly, she worked Sunday evening as a checkout clerk or cashier, but she also served on the Agenda Committee for 7 1/2 years.

Time: 6:45 pm EST

Free!

Registration