AUTHOR BOOK TALK - "A VIRTUOUS LIE" by Ben Halpern

Program Type:

Literature

Age Group:

Emerging Adults, Adults, Older Adults
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Event Details

The Ocean Beach Branch Library is happy to host Sam Halpern who will discuss and sign his new book A Virtuous Lie. Beloved "Dad" in NY Times bestseller Sh*t My Dad Says and author of A Far Piece to Canaan, Sam Halpern grew up on sharecropping farms in Kentucky and became a physician and professor at the University of California Medical School. A Virtuous Lie is his second novel.

A writer assigned a story that can save his magazine from demise is sent to get the life story of a mysterious older, still beautiful, wily woman lawyer who sees the interview as a way of saving her organization, which champions poor women.  The writer’s life is changed by the encounter.

Copies of book will be available for purchase and signing.

 

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