An afternoon with author Peg Meier
February 5th, 2 – 4pm
We
will be showcasing her most recent work, Through
No Fault of My Own: a Girl’s Diary of Life on Summit
Avenue in the Jazz Age. On Christmas Day, 1926, twelve-year-old
Clotilde “Coco” Irvine received a blank diary as a present. Coco loved to write—and to get into
scrapes—and her new diary gave her the opportunity to explain her side of the
messes she created: “I’m in deep trouble through no fault of my own,” her
entries frequently began. The daughter of a lumber baron, Coco grew up in a
twenty-room mansion on fashionable Summit Avenue at the peak of the Jazz Age, a
time when music, art, and women’s social status were all in a state of flux and
the economy was still flying high.
Coco’s diary carefully records her
adventures, problems, and romances, written with a lively wit and a droll sense
of humor. Whether sneaking out to a dance hall in her mother’s clothes or
getting in trouble for telling an off-color joke, Coco and her escapades will
captivate and delight preteen readers as well as their mothers and
grandmothers.
Peg Meier’s introduction describes St. Paul life in the 1920s and provides
context for the privileged world that Coco inhabits, while an afterword tells
what happens to Coco as an adult—and reveals surprises about some of the other
characters in the diary.
Refreshments provided.
A review of the book can be
found here:
http://www.pegmeier.com/QandA.html