The Listeners: Sweetwater Beneath the Business of Luxury
MAGGIE STIEFVATER in conversation with CLAUDIA FRIDDELL 

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
31st Street & Barclay Street
Waverly Neighborhood

From #1 New York Times bestselling novelist MAGGIE STIEFVATER, who has sold over 5 million copies around the world of her YA fantasy books, including the Shiver trilogy, The Raven Cycle, and The Scorpio Races, comes the debut of her first adult novel, The Listeners. The esteemed author made a name for herself as “a writer of atmospheric, character-driven, genre-bending novels that feel like nothing else on your bookshelf.” This historical fiction is a deeply researched and deeply felt novel based on real stories, Appalachian folklore, betrayal, and an unlikely romance with a mesmerizing heroine by a storytelling marvel, a book about “shifting alliances and power imbalances, the true cost of luxury, and good people trying to do the right thing.” Award-winning novelist, CLAUDIA FRIDDEL, whose latest nonfiction YA book, The Mysterious Virginia Hall, World War II’s Most Dangerous Spy – one of three Baltimore stories that reads like a thriller, joins her in conversation.