October 7, 2022
6:30 PM CST
Join author Julie A. Sellers & Meadowlark Press on Zoom to celebrate the launch of Ann of Sunflower Lane.
Register to receive a Zoom link at tinyurl.com/SunflowerLane.
Order your copy of the book at meadowlarkbookstore.com.
Meadowlark
Press announces the publication of Ann of
Sunflower Lane by award-winning author Julie A. Sellers. Sellers’s book is
a tribute to the Kansas Flint Hills, booklovers and reading, and Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.
Sellers
explains that the novel is not an adaptation of Montgomery’s classic novel, but
a story of the way books and reading impact readers. “The title character, Ann
Alwyn, is an avid reader, and when she comes to live with the grandparents she never
knew at Sunflower Lane farm, she discovers a kindred spirit in an old edition
of Anne of Green Gables. Her reading
of that and other texts frames her experiences as she integrates herself into
life on the farm and in the small-town community of Storey, Kansas.”
“Ann of Sunflower Lane is a love-letter
to books and reading, and especially to the power of Anne of Green Gables to reflect and to shape life,” says Elizabeth
Rollins Epperly, Professor Emerita and founder of the L.M. Montgomery Institute
at the University of Prince Edward Island.
Marah Gubar, Associate Professor
of Literature at MIT and author of Artful
Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children’s Literature (2009), said,
“I love how vividly this book conjures up contemporary rural life in a small
town, chronicling how the transplanted Ann comes to terms with her troubled
family history by putting down new roots and reinvigorating old ones.”
“I love this character, this book. Readers of all ages
will fall in love with Ann of Sunflower
Lane,” said Kansas writer Cheryl Unruh, author of Gravedigger’s Daughter: Vignettes from a Small Kansas Town.
Sellers
was the Kansas Authors Club 2020 Prose Writer of the Year and the Overall
Poetry (2022) and Prose (2017, 2019) winner of the Kansas Voices Writing
Contest sponsored by the Winfield Arts and Humanities Council. She is the
author of Kindred Verse: Poems Inspired
by Anne of Green Gables (Blue Cedar Press, 2021).
Sellers is available for readings for interested groups.
For more information, visit the author’s website at www.julieasellers.com.
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| Ann of Sunflower Lane, by Julie A. Sellers |
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| Author Julie A. Sellers |
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