AUTHOR TALK "The Red Ribbon" by Nancy Freund Bills

Nancy Freund Bills will read from her new book “The Red Ribbon: A Memoir of Lightning and Rebuilding After Loss.” In the summer of 1994, a freak lightning and thunder storm explodes on the southern coast of Maine, killing Bills’s husband and critically wounding her younger son. She promises her late husband that she will write their family’s story and bind it with a red ribbon of love and courage. Insightful, moving, and full of intelligence and humanity, The Red Ribbon is a story of surviving the many and often devastating lightning strikes of life, and a gift of compassion and wisdom for readers who are struggling with their own losses.

Nancy Bills is on the faculty of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Southern Maine, where she facilitates the fiction writing workshop. She is also a retired clinical social worker. A member of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance (MWPA), she lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine with her two Maine Coon cats.