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San Francisco artist Anne McFarland has been distracted by a cross-country romance with Sergio and has veered from her creative path. While visiting him in New York, she buys a pair of rhinestone shoes in an antique shop that spark her imagination and lead her on a quest to learn more about the shoes’ original owner.
Almost ninety years earlier, Clair Deveraux, a sheltered 1929 New York debutante, tries to reside within the bounds of polite society and please her father. But when she meets Winnie, a carefree Macy’s shop girl, Clair is lured into the steamy side of Manhattan—a place filled with speakeasies, flappers, and the beat of “that devil music”—and her true desires explode wide open. Secrets and lies heap up until her father loses everything in the stock market crash and Clair becomes entangled in the burlesque world in an effort to save her family and herself.
Ultimately, both Anne and Clair—two very different women living in very different eras—attain true fulfillment . . . with some help from their silver shoes.
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Jill G. Hall is inspired to write about nature’s awe, love gone good and bad as well as life’s ironies. Her debut novel, The Black Velvet Coat, is an International Book Award Finalist for Best New Fiction and an Amazon #1 Bestseller. The Silver Shoes, her next historical novel was a Warwick’s Bookstore Bestseller. August 2016 she was named Author of the Month by Friends of the San Diego Central Library. Her poems and personal narratives have appeared in a variety of publications including A Year in Ink, San Diego Poetry Annual, The Avocet, and Wild Women, Wild Voices. On her blog CreaLivity she shares personal musings about the art of practicing a creative lifestyle.
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The Library Shop will be onsite to sell copies of The Silver Shoes to support the San Diego Public Library Foundation.