Join us for an evening with Boston-based best-selling author J. Courtney Sullivan, who will present her talk "Fiction, Family and Faith: How Ancestry and Inter-generational Influence Determine Who a Woman is Allowed to Become," followed by a book signing. 

 Wellesley Books will be on hand to sell copies of her books.

J. Courtney Sullivan is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Commencement, Maine, The Engagements, Saints For All Occasions, and Friends and Strangers. Maine was named a Best Book of the Year by Time magazine, and a Washington Post Notable Book for 2011. The Engagements was one of People Magazine’s Top Ten Books of 2013 and an Irish Times Best Book of the Year. It is soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, and it will be translated into 17 languages. Her newest book, The Cliffs, was a Reese’s Book Club Pick and a novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine.