Above: Join a published Southborough author at the Friends’ Annual Meeting at the library next week. (images of promotional photo and book covers)
“Divisive” politics has been a topic of national concern over the past several years, and recent concern in Southborough. It’s a topic that Southborough resident Meredith O’Brien tackled in her most recent novel, “Louie on the Rocks”. She’ll be talking about the “dark comedic novel” at the library a week from tonight.
The author will also answer questions from the audience, including ones about her experience as an author and her other books. The community is encouraged to join The Friends of the Southborough Library for the special event.1
The talk will be part of the Friends’ Annual Meeting on Wednesday, June 4th. O’Brien’s talk is scheduled for 6:30 pm on the Library’s main floor. No registration is required, just drop in and join us.
For those of you who have already literally “joined” the Friends, members will hold our quick Annual Election that evening following the talk. Our meeting will also welcome any non-members who are interested in learning more about how the Friends support the library and opportunities to help.
The event will include light refreshments and a book signing.
As for the author and her latest book, O’Brien’s Louie on the Rocks is described as a darkly humorous novel “about an estranged widower, MAGA father-progressive daughter duo locked in a court battle over control of his finances.” It should resonate with anyone who has “experienced division between them and loved ones — about life choices, about politics, [or] about substance abuse”.
The community may also be familiar with O’Brien as the author of Mr. Clark’s Big Band: A Year of Laughter, Tears, and Jazz in a Middle School Band Room a book chronicling Trottier Middle School’s jazz band after the devastating loss of one of their own.
After receiving a “life altering” diagnosis with MS, O’Brien wrote and published a medical memoir, Uncomfortably Numb, about her personal journey. This month, she released a sequel: Uncomfortably Numb 2: An Anthology for Newly-Diagnosed MS Patients.
A former newspaper reporter and investigative journalist, O’Brien’s background also includes blogging and column writing, including stories from her perspective as a working mother. A collection of those stories were published in her book A Suburban Mom: Notes from the Asylum. The experiences also sparked her first comedic novel, Mortified: A Novel about Oversharing.
You can read more about O’Brien on her website here.
You can read more about the Friends of the Southborough Library here.
And reminder, the Food Truck Festival on Wednesday nights will be running that afternoon until 7:00 pm across the street. That makes it easy to grab a quick bite for dinner before heading over to join us at the Library!
