Apr 12 2012 7:00 pm
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Thursday, April 12, 7 p.m. Debut author Ruta Sepetys will read from and sign her New York Times bestselling novel for young adults, Between Shades of Gray. Ruta Sepetys discusses her upcoming novel, Between Shades of Gray from Penguin Young Readers Group on Vimeo.
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina is going about her life as any other Lithuanian teenager might, preparing for art school, thinking about summer... But then, the Soviet secret police barge into her home, deporting her, along with her mother and younger brother, to Siberia. Har father is sent to a prison camp. What follows is an unflinching account of the nature of the condition in which she and the other prisoners are forced to live. Born and raised in Michigan, Sepetys is the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee. The nations of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia disappeared from maps in 1941 and did not reappear until 1990. As this is a story seldom told, Sepetys wanted to give a voice to the hundreds of thousands of people who lost their lives during Stalin’s cleansing of the Baltic region. The novel, published in 29 countries and 26 languages, is a Carnegie Medal nominee, a William C. Morris finalist, a New York Times Notable Book, a Wall Street Journal Best Children’s Book, and the first American novel to be awarded the French literary prize, Prix RTL-Lire, for the best novel for young people. Sepetys lives with her family in Tennessee. |
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