Booklovers’ Gourmet is hosting a book release and signing with author Mary Anne Kalonas Slack on Saturday, November 1st from 2-4 p.m. Her second novel, Painting a Family, features mother and daughter relationships. Her short stories have been published in Adelaide Literary Magazine and in the 2013, 2024, and 2025 Quabbin Quills Anthologies. Her first novel, The Sacrificial Daughter, was published in 2023 by White River Press. This event is free and open to the public. Booklovers’ Gourmet is located at 72 East Main Street in Webster, MA. For more information or to RSVP, please call 508-949-6232.
About the book: Painting a Family tells the story of Jane, who endures a strict Catholic upbringing in the 1960s and 1970s, when good girls only leave the nest to marry and have babies. Longing to be an artist, Jane dares to follow her dreams—until she meets handsome, stalwart Tim O’Connell. They marry and have four daughters. But when her girls are nearly grown, Jane is faced with a challenge for which she is utterly unprepared.
With twists and turns along the way, the mother and daughters shield themselves with secrets and test their loyalties to one another, until the ties that bind threaten to break once and for all.