The Mount Dora Library Association, in partnership with the Copacabana Cuban Café, has added a reception with complimentary hors d’oeuvres for award-winning author Susan Carol McCarthy on Thursday, October 15, from 5:30 – 7 p.m. at the restaurant located at 320 Dora Drawdy in downtown Mount Dora. This will follow the book talk that will be held from 2 – 4 p.m. in the W. T. Bland Public Library community room.

Praised for her ability to blend “fact, memory, imagination, and truth with admirable grace" (The Washington Post), Ms. McCarthy digs into the sociological effects of the Cuban Missile Crisis on Americans in her third novel, A Place We Knew Well.

On October 19, 1962, The United States and the Soviet Union are at a stand-still and so is the Avery Family. The town of College Park, Florida is buzzing with gossip about the traffic at McCoy Air Force Base and Wes Avery, a World War II veteran and former bomb-dropper, can’t help but assume the worst—the United States is on the brink of catastrophe.

In this intimately gripping novel, readers are brought into the 13-day period of panic, fear and uncertainty that was the Cuban Missile Crisis, the emotional repercussions of which were incredible and yet, the impact on the psyches of everyday citizens largely forgotten. A Place We Knew Well is the novel that seeks to remind us.

For information on the free events, please email garryl@cityofmountdora.com or contact the library at 352-735-7180 option 5.