Author Susan Kaplan Carlton will discuss her new novel In the Neighborhood of True at the Concord Free Public Library on Tuesday, May 7 at 7:00 PM. The event will take place in the Periodical Room of the Main Library at 129 Main Street.

In Carlton’s new novel, In the Neighborhood of True, Ruth Robb and her family move to Atlanta in 1958. “To fit in with the popular pastel posse, Ruth keeps the fact that she’s Jewish to herself-and soon she’s knocking back Coca-Colas with dreamy Davis at the country club. But a heartbreaking night brings Ruth’s two worlds into conflict, and she’s forced to choose between standing up for what she believes and losing everything she’s come to love about her new life.”
Susan Kaplan Carlton, a longtime magazine writer, currently teaches writing at Boston University. She lived for a time with her family in Atlanta, where her daughters learned the fine points of etiquette from a little pink book and learned the power of social justice from their synagogue. Carlton’s writing has appeared in Self, Elle, Mademoiselle, Seventeen, Parents, and elsewhere. She is the author of the young adult novels Love & Haight, which was named a Best Book for Young Adults by YALSA and a Best Book by the Children’s Book Committee at Bank Street Books, and Lobsterland.

This free event is sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library. For more information, please visit www.concordlibrary.org.