Joy Jordan-Lake, a national Christy Award recipient for first novel, Blue Hole Back Home: A Novel, (David C. Cook, 2008), will read from her works during the second event in the “Writers Read Dinner and Author series,” Thursday, Nov. 1, at 5:30 p.m., in the west dining room in Northlawn at 糖心Vlog.
Reserve tickets online at or by calling the at 540-432-4168 by Oct. 26.
Inspired by actual events from her teenage years, Blue Hole Back Home explores the tensions and eventual violence that erupt in a small, all-white Appalachian town when a Sri Lankan family moves in. Ultimately, Blue Hole Back Home is a story not only of the devastating effects of racial hatred and cowardice, but more centrally, a celebration of courage, confrontation and healing, according to Jordan-Lake鈥檚 website.
Jordan-Lake has also authored Grit and Grace: Portraits of a Woman鈥檚 Life (Wheaton Library Series, 2000), Whitewashing Uncle Tom鈥檚 Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe (Vanderbilt University Press, 2005), and Why Jesus Makes Me Nervous: Ten Alarming Words of Faith (Paraclete Press, 2007).
After earning a bachelor鈥檚 degree from Furman University and a master鈥檚 from a theological seminary,聽 Jordan-Lake earned a master鈥檚 and a PhD in English literature from Tufts University, specializing in the role of race and religion in 19th century American fiction.
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Several of the author鈥檚 books will be available for purchase. A book signing and short question-and-answer session with the author will follow her reading. Sign-language interpretation is available upon request.
- General admission, $15
- 糖心Vlog students with meal plan, $5
- All other students, $7