May 8 Book & Author Luncheon

AAUW May 8 Monica Arlene Gold, Author "Looking for Shelter" To become a successful first time author takes determination, imagination, and a keen insight for required information. At Garden City AAUW Book & Author Luncheon on May 8 at the Swan Club, Glenwood Landing 12-3:30 p.m. meet author Monica Arlene Gold, finalist in William Faulkner - William Wisdom Writing Competition. Gold, in her first book 'Looking for Shelter' spins a contemporary, compelling page turner, within a Long Island South Shore setting named Shelter Bay.

This fictional town of Shelter Bay would be provide with its essential nature through a historical study and a childhood recapturing of 'Oceanside.'

Gold writes with an intermix of truth and fiction. Walter, a main character in her book was developed in her mind when the Massapequa High School Field was set ablaze in the late 1990's. As a resident and a reporter there, the incident captured her imagination. This event became the inciting incident for the book's plot.

Once Gold, through a study of case histories, could give a background cause to Walter's fire setting problem, she was ready to produce 'Looking for Shelter.' Thus in the town of 'Shelter Bay' she interweaves local history into a community of affluence that was once made habitable by hard scrabble fishermen.

Gold, herself a former high school English teacher in both Roslyn and Seaford, L.I., introduce's readers to english teacher Robert Barkin. When implicated in the story's unresolved crime Barkin's respectability is at stake. He comes face to face with a life-changing moral dilemma wherein a universal message becomes etched into Gold's novel.

Reservation for the luncheon at $45.00 per person may be obtained through a check made out to AAUW - GC/EF/LAF

Mail to:

Joan Stafford (for AAUW)

111 Cherry Valley Ave

Apt M28

Garden City, New York 11530

Proceeds of the day will benefit AAUW's Educational Foundation and its Legal Advocacy Fund.