Jane Smiley

The St. Louis County Library Foundation and the Novel Neighbor Present
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Jane Smiley

 
Author of “Lucky”   
 

St. Louis native and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “A Thousand Acres” and many other beloved novels, Jane Smiley returns to her roots with a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musician from St. Louis. Through a combination of hard work and serendipity, Jodie Rattler’s singing career catapulted her from St. Louis to New York City, to the heights of fame, and back again. Jodie comes of age in recording studios and on tour, and she tries to hold her own in the wake of Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, and Joni Mitchell. Yet it always feels like something is missing. Shot through with longing and exuberance, romance and rock 'n' roll, “Lucky” is a story of the grit and glitter of real talent, a colorful portrait of one woman's journey in search of herself.

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