Author Event: Robert Gwaltney in conversation with Donna Everhart
Date: Tue, Apr 7, 2026
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Venue: Page 158 Books, Raleigh
Price: Free
Category: Arts
Join Page 158 Books as we welcome back author Robert Gwaltney to celebrate his novel, Sing Down the Moon--a Southern Gothic tale of generational trauma exploring inheritance, addiction, identity. It’s a story about the legacies, particularly the legacies that women carry, the ghosts we inherit, and the costs of breaking free. Sixteen-year-old Leontyne Skye longs to escape Good Hope, a barrier island off the coast of Georgia—and the cursed birthright that binds her to it. For generations, the women of the Skye line have tended Damascus, an ancient fig tree whose siren song lures the dead across the river. The figs it bears are harvested to create Redemption, a drug that tethers the island to the dead, slowly consuming the Skye women from the inside out. Leontyne’s mother, Eulalee, is already disappearing—memory, hair, teeth—into the salt-stung air. And Leontyne is unraveling too, since the accident known as Tribulation Day, when she lost her hand and all sense of who she was before. As her memories resurface in fractured pieces, and her childhood friends, Rebecca and Avery, twist truth to their own ends, Leontyne faces a cruel inheritance aiming to destroy her. When Journey Wintergarden arrives, mysterious and magnetic, precarious relationships unravel, threatening to upend everything, derailing Leontyne’s plans to escape Good Hope. As desire, betrayal, and memory collide, the haints grow restless.