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SUMMARY:Talk and Book Signing with Author Janell Strube
DESCRIPTION:Join Author Janell Strube in conversation with Marni Freedman\, editor\, writing coach and cofounder of the San Diego Writer’s Festival discussing Janell’s new novel\, Adelaide: Painter of the Revolution. \nJanuary 22\, 7:00 PM \nBarnes & Noble\, Encinitas\n1040 N El Camino Real Drive. \nEncinitas\, CA 92024 \n  \nIn a world where women are seen but rarely heard\, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard refuses to be silenced. \nThe daughter of Parisian shopkeepers\, Adélaïde dreams not of marriage or titles but of earning a place among the masters of French art. With Queen Marie Antoinette on the throne and a spirit of change in the air\, anything seems possible. But as revolution brews and powerful forces conspire to deny her success\, Adélaïde faces an impossible choice: protect her life—or fight for a legacy that will outlast her. \nInspired by the true story of one of the first women admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture\, Adélaïde: Painter of the Revolution is a sweeping\, evocative portrait of ambition\, courage\, and resilience in the face of history’s fiercest storm. \n  \n  \n  \nJanell Strube makes a mean barbecue sauce. She’s also a world traveler\, a baker\, and a bicyclist. But when she writes\, her identity as an adoptee often steers her attention to topics of alienation\, erased history\, and displacement. \nIn 2024\, a personal essay of hers was published in the anthology Adoption and Suicidality. Her work has also appeared in Shaking the Tree: brazen. short. memoir and A Year in Ink. Her short memoir\, “Taking my Blonde Daughter to a Black Lives Matter Rally\,” was selected for the 2020 San Diego Memoir Showcase\, an annual live storytelling event. \nWhile much of her writing is personal\, she enjoys the freedom that comes with crafting fiction. Her desire to learn about forgotten female artists who shaped the French revolutionary period motivated her to write Adélaïde: Painter of the Revolution. \nWhen not crunching numbers as a tax executive for a hotel chain\, she can be found hanging out with Shiloh the Wheaten and plotting her second book.
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