Best Selling Author Lisa Wingate’s Book Tour Starts in Panama City

“The Sea Keeper’s Daughters” is a work of fiction based on Lisa Wingates’ extensive research of the Federal Writers’ Project.

“Those involved in The Federal Writers’ Project of the 1930’s (FWP, a subdivision of Federal One) were far ahead of their time. They were the beginning of the Civil Rights movement before there was a Civil Rights movement. They pushed toward equality for women before anyone was talking about equal opportunity,” says Lisa Wingate, whose new novel, “The Sea Keeper’s Daughters” has a dual timeline plot.

Modern day protagonist, Whitney, discovers the letters of her great aunt Alice who was disowned by her wealthy family after signing on with the WPA as a Federal Writer. Through Alice’s letters, Wingate describes the experiences of a woman traveling into the unknown, all for the sake of a story. Through the pieced-together letters, the protagonist considers not only Alice’s difficult journey but her compassion for the multiracial Melungeon people who suffered many indignities and remain one of the world’s greatest anthropological mysteries. Alice’s chronicle intertwining with Whitney’s own plight highlights the power of one person’s story to affect another’s and the resultant significance of kindness.

 

[box type=”shadow” align=”aligncenter” ]September 8 is the first day of the official book release for Lisa Wingate’s latest novel “The Sea Keeper’s Daughters.”The author will be in Panama City to speak at the St . Andrews Coffee House on “Preservation of Story.”

On September 9, Lisa will give a similar talk and have a signing at the Blountstown Library from 4 to 5:30 pm.[/box]

“The Sea Keeper’s Daughters” is an inspiring story of people learning to care for one another amid strife and is work that sheds new light on the work of the WPA folklore writers who documented thousands of personal histories of a hidden America . The Federal Writers’ Project nears its 80th anniversary this July.

Family Fiction named Lisa Wingate’s previous novel, “The Story Keeper”, one of the top ten novels of 2014.

The public is invited to Lisa Wingate’s first day of the book tour on September 8 at the St. Andrews Coffee House in Historic St. Andrews. The second stop is Blountstown’s Library on September 9th.

The book can now be pre-ordered in all bookstores.