Schenectady County
Public Library hosted
a special guest
speaker on May 3rd.
Robin Oliveira is sharing
her latest book, Winter
Sisters, with about
ninety people tonight.
The Open Door
Bookstore is
selling copies of
My Name is Mary
Sutter & Winter
Sisters.
This is Robin's second visit to Schenectady County Public Library. She visited in 2011 to speak about her first historical fiction book, My Name is Mary Sutter. Mary, a Midwife living in Albany, goes south to work as a Surgeon in Military Hospitals during the Civil War.
A Loudonville native, Robin
spent a lot of time in Albany
while growing up.
The historic city inspires her
writing in the Mary Sutter
books.
Robin's books are meticulously researched. She poured over maps, train schedules, descriptions and photos of Albany, local newspapers and court transcripts to create Mary's world and bring late 1800s Albany to life.
In Winter Sisters, Mary's friends, Bonnie and David O'Donnell, are killed during a horrible blizzard in Albany, New York in 1879. Their daughters, ten year old Emma and seven year old Claire disappear during the storm. Mary Sutter and her family's search throughout the area for the girls is fruitless. The police chief tells Mary that the girls are dead and it's time to give up the search.
Mary doesn't believe that the police have looked everywhere and done all that can be done to find Emma and Claire. Her tenacious search brings Mary to the Gilded Age's most carefully held secrets.
Robin signs books
for audience
members.
She takes time with
each person who
brings her a book.
I was happy to see Robin return to the area. She provided just enough information about Winter Sisters to entice readers, me included.
A big thank you to Schenectady County Public Library for bringing Robin Oliveira back to the region to share another historical fiction book set in Albany, New York.
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