Little One: An Afternoon with Olivia Muenter and Ayana Lage

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Author Event, Book Clubs & Discussion Groups, Literacy, Special Events

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Program Description

Program Description

A searing novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Such a Bad Influence, Little One follows a young woman whose life is upended when a journalist uncovers her mysterious and hidden upbringing. 

Join Olivia Muenter and local writer Ayana Lage to celebrate the release of Muenter's new novel, Little One.

Olivia Muenter is a writer, reader, and co-host of the Bad on Paper podcast. She lives in an old house in the Hudson Valley with her family. Her first novel, Such a Bad Influence, was an instant USA Today bestseller.  
 
Ayana Lage is a blogger and freelance writer with bylines in The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and more. She has a B.S. in journalism from the University of Florida. When she’s not working, you’ll find her exploring her hometown of Tampa, Florida, with her husband and two children.
 

About Little One:

From the outside, Catharine West’s childhood sounds idyllic—balmy days spent running barefoot through the gardens, plucking ripe tomatoes straight from the vine as sunlight warmed her skin. Her parents built a life that was simple and community-focused, an ethos that soon attracted others in need of a change. For a time, Catharine’s magnetic father was enough to keep the farm thriving and temptation outside its gates. But as she grew older, the farm and family she was raised to love faded into something darker, forcing Catharine to evolve with it.

​It’s now been a decade since Catharine abandoned the farm, and she has done her best to reinvent her life, until an email from a charismatic journalist interrupts her peace. Her first instinct is to ignore the stranger’s prying questions—whether she knew about a mysterious “cult” in central Florida, whether she is the same “Catharine-with-an-A” who lived there for a time. But when she realizes the journalist knows far more than he’s letting on, she reconsiders. If Catharine can stay one step ahead of him, she may be able to find the one person she never wanted to leave behind—her sister, Linna—and make sure her own secrets remain buried too.

Sharp-eyed and sweltering, Little One masterfully captures the dread of facing your deepest desires, when the hunger to become your best self threatens to drown out everything else. An achingly astute look at modern womanhood and wellness culture, it tackles the enduring question: How far would you go to be good?

(Descriptions from publisher website.)

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