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Literary Salon with Lisa Duffy and Daniela Petrova

Conversations from a Page is hosting an evening Online Literary Salon on Zoom where we will be discussing My Kind of People with Lisa Duffy and Her Daughter’s Mother by Daniela Petrova at 7:00 p.m. CST. Much like our in-home setting Literary Salons, there will be entertaining and lively book conversation over Zoom in the comfort of your own home.

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My Kind of People

About My Kind of People


On Ichabod Island, a jagged strip of land thirteen miles off the coast of Massachusetts, ten-year-old Sky becomes an orphan for the second time after a tragic accident claims the lives of her adoptive parents.

Grieving the death of his best friends, Leo’s life is turned upside down when he finds himself the guardian of young Sky. Back on the island and struggling to balance his new responsibilities and his marriage to his husband, Leo is supported by a powerful community of neighbors, many of them harboring secrets of their own.

Maggie, who helps with Sky’s childcare, has hit a breaking point with her police chief husband, who becomes embroiled in a local scandal. Her best friend Agnes, the island busybody, invites Sky’s estranged grandmother to stay for the summer, straining already precarious relationships. Their neighbor Joe struggles with whether to tell all was not well in Sky’s house in the months leading up to the accident. And among them all is a mysterious woman, drawn to Ichabod to fulfill a dying wish.

About Lisa Duffy

Lisa (Hamilton) Duffy was raised in Belmont, MA. She is the author of THE SALT HOUSE, named by Real Simple as a Best Book of the Month upon its June release, as well as Bustle's 17 Best Debut Novels by Women in 2017 and THIS IS HOME, a Publishers Weekly starred review novel and 2019 favorite book club pick. Her third novel, MY KIND OF PEOPLE, is forthcoming in June 2020 (all from Atria/Simon & Schuster).


Lisa received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts. Her writing can be found in numerous publications, including Writer's Digest. She is the founding editor of ROAR, a literary journal supporting women in the arts. Lisa is represented by Danielle Burby at Nelson Literary Agency. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and three children.

Her Daughter's Mother

About Her Daughter’s Mother

Lana Stone has never considered herself a stalker--until the night she impulsively follows a familiar face through the streets of New York's Upper West Side. Her target? The "anonymous" egg donor she'd selected through an agency, the one who's making motherhood possible for her. Hungry to learn more about her, Lana plans only to watch her from a distance. But when circumstances bring them face-to-face, an unexpected friendship is born.

Katya, a student at Columbia, is the yin to Lana's yang, an impulsive free spirit who lives life at the edge. And for pragmatic Lana, she's a breath of fresh air and a welcome distraction from her painful breakup with her baby's father. Then, just as suddenly as Katya entered Lana's life, she disappears--and Lana might have been the last person to see her before she went missing. Determined to find out what became of the woman to whom she owes so much, Lana digs into Katya's past, even as the police grow suspicious of her motives. But she's unprepared for the secrets she unearths, and their power to change everything she thought she knew about those she loves best...

About Daniela Petrova

Daniela Petrova is a recipient of an Artist Fellowship in Writing from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a scholarship for the Tin House Summer Workshop. Her short stories, poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Salon, and Marie Claire, among many others. Born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria, Petrova currently lives in New York City. HER DAUGHTER'S MOTHER is her first novel.

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