Wednesday, November 28th

6-7:30PM

A piano bar on lower Bourbon Street. The kind of place tourists peek into but then avoid. Brenda Saenz, an elderly woman, holds court at the piano. She is abundantly made up and carries herself with the hauteur of a White Russian exile. In brief chapters, we meet Brenda’s staff and customers. The cleaning lady – a once famous rhythm and blues star. The waitress – a rebellious runaway from the Northeast. A carriage driver, who tries to help promote the bar with tourists. But it is Brenda’s own secret tragedy that this group must deal with or flee from – in the final chapter that gives the book its name.

This book is available in paperback ($9.00).

Dalt Wonk and Simon Gunning discuss and sign their book, Spiritual Gifts.

If you are unable to attend, you must call the book shop to order signed books.