Bridging Writers Series
Presents
Ursula Wong
Monday, June 6, 2016
6:30 - 8:00 PM
Thayer Memorial Library
Join Ursula
Wong for a reading from the award-winning Purple
Trees, first in a series of novels about strong women. Against the backdrop of rural Massachusetts,
Lily Phillips neglects her own needs to care for sick parents, only to lose
them at an early age. Alone and in debt, Lily must grow up fast to find work
and build a future. As she marries and has children, the weight of the past
threatens everything she loves. With
vignettes from the hay field, the blizzard of 1978, and more, Purple Trees
explores this damaged woman’s struggle for normalcy.
Books signings and sales to follow.
Ursula
Wong grew up on a small family dairy farm near the Quabbin Reservoir, and went
on to become a high tech engineer. After retiring, she turned to her dream of
writing fiction. Her stories have appeared in Everyday Fiction, Spinetingler
Magazine, and the Insanity Tales anthologies.
Her debut
novel, Purple Tress, is set on a Massachusetts farm in the 1960s and
1970s, and is the story of a naïve girl who loses her parents to illness, and must
grow up fast to survive and build a future, but the weight of the past
threatens everything she loves.
Her second novel, Amber Wolf, tells
the tale of Ludmelia Kudirka, a young woman who flees to the safety of the
forest after she helplessly watches Russian soldiers murder her mother. Vowing
vengeance, Ludmelia joins the partisans fighting for freedom in a
David-and-Goliath struggle against the mighty Soviet war machine.
Purple
Trees is available on Amazon. Look for Amber Wolf in 2016.
Visit
Ursula’s popular Reaching Readers Blog on her website ursulawong.wordpress.com
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