Join us Fri., Oct. 6, 12 pm for lunch at High Cotton (199 East Bay St.), as Natasha Boyd discusses her novel The Indigo Girl (Blackstone, hb., 240 pp., $27). Tickets are $31 for the three-course luncheon and talk, or $58 including a signed copy of the book.
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Based on historical documents, including Eliza Lucas’s own letters, The Indigo Girl gives a fictional account of how a teenage girl produced indigo dye, which became one of the largest exports out of South Carolina, an export that laid the foundation for the incredible wealth of several Southern families who still live on today. Although largely overlooked by historians, the accomplishments of Eliza Lucas influenced the course of U.S. history. When she passed away in 1793, President George Washington served as a pallbearer at her funeral.
This book is set between 1739 and 1744, with romance, intrigue, forbidden friendships, and political and financial threats weaving together to form the story of a remarkable young woman whose actions were before their time: the story of the indigo girl.
Natasha Boyd is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author of historical fiction and contemporary romantic Southern fiction. Her books have been translated into Italian, German, French, Turkish and Indonesian. She lives with her husband, two sons and the cast of characters in her head.
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