An Evening with Quite Literally Books

IN-STORE EVENT
Monday, June 9, 7:30 PM
An Evening with Quite Literally Books
Lisa Endo Cooper and Bremond Berry MacDougall present:
Plum Bun by Jessie Redmond Fauset
The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Pink House by Nelia Gardner White
Wine reception to follow

Greenlight celebrates the work of Quite Literally Books with founders Lisa Endo Cooper and Bremond Berry MacDougall! A newly launched publisher, Quite Literally Books is a heritage press devoted to discovering and reissuing ought-to-be-in-print books by American women authors—and occasionally others—who’ve been shelved for far too long. Thus, tonight's featured titles include three forgotten but timeless books: Plum Bun by Jessie Redmond Fauset, about a talented and ambitious Black woman who passes as white to access new opportunities after leaving her Philadelphia family for Greenwich Village; The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, following a 1920s family, trapped within the time's rigid gender roles, who get a second chance at domestic bliss when they throw social conventions out with the dishwater; and The Pink House by Nelia Gardner White, following a newly orphaned seven-year-old girl who moves in with her icy Aunt, absent uncle, and four casually cruel cousins—all of whom have many secrets that she longs to understand . . . or so she thinks. Join us for a celebratory evening as Cooper and MacDougal discuss these three back-in-print titles, followed by an audience Q&A.

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