Local author Patricia Lee Lewis will discuss her new historical fiction novel, Thorns of the Mesquite, on Saturday, February 21, at 2:00 PM. The book is set in 1938 West Texas and follows a woman who risks everything to help a Black man fleeing a lynch mob. The event will be held at the Sunderland Public Library at 20 School Street. The snow date is February 28.
For more information, contact the Sunderland Public Library at (413) 665-2642 or visit their website.
Patricia Lee Lewis, a writer raised in Texas and long based in New England, draws on her familial connections to the West Texas landscape in her work.
