An Evening with Elizabeth Wellington Rollins

Elizabeth Wellington Rollins in Conversation with Mary Beth Morell
Monday, November 2nd |  Doors open at 6:00 PM |  Middleburg Community Center

Middleburg Books is very excited to invite Elizabeth Wellington Rollins to discuss her stunning debut novel, The Three Graces of Pearl Street.  

In this wise and warm debut novel, an Italian American grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter all named after the Roman myth of the Three Graces find their lives—and their secrets—colliding when, after years apart, they come to live under the same roof.

Graziella, a ninety-six-year-old former nun, spends her days running the parish’s food kitchen, convinced it is her responsibility to keep everyone fed in their working-class New York neighborhood. Her daughter, Grace, a respected psychology professor, appears accomplished and composed, yet finds herself unmoored as her personal life falters. Ella—Graziella’s granddaughter and Grace’s daughter—is weary of defending her vegan diet and anti-capitalistic lifestyle; blind to her own brilliance, she longs, above all, for a place to belong. Living together again, the three Graces reckon with the distances that have shaped them, and with what it means, at last, to be fully known.

About the Author:
Elizabeth Wellington Rollins is a writer and award-winning copywriter. She grew up outside New York City and graduated from Davidson College. Her work has appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, The Week, Travel + Leisure, and Vogue. She lives in Vermont with her family.

The Evening
6:00 — Doors open
6:30 — Conversation
7:30 — Book signing