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‘Meet the Author’ program at Patterson Library

Louisiana author Dr. C.H. Lawler will be at the Patterson Branch Library at 5:30 p.m. July 16 for a “Meet the Author” gathering. Lawler will discuss his book, “The Saints of Lost Things: A Novel.”
This is the first novel for the Louisiana native. He is a graduate of LSU-Shreveport and LSU School of Medicine in Shreveport.
“The Saints of Lost Things: A Novel,” is a story of love, hope, perseverance, envy, bitterness and the remarkable power of kindness, according to the St. Mary Parish Library news release.
The story, set in Louisiana in 1965, is about an unlikely, inevitable couple. Sammy Teague and Betsy Duplechain have grown up right next door to each other, but in different worlds, with expectations and circumstances that have always kept them separate. Now, as a powerful September hurricane bears down on the Louisiana coast, those worlds will come face to face.
The choices they make will send them on an odyssey north and into the fall of 1965, as the brutal and envious Sheriff Percy Parris pursues them. Along the way they meet an unusual and eclectic series of people who help them become more than what they were.
The program is free and open to the public. Several copies are available for checkout through the St. Mary Parish Library System. Lawler will also sign copies of his book for those that have personal copies.

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