Thursday, April 25, 2024 | 7:30pm CDT
Hearst Center for the Arts | 304 W Seerley Blvd, Cedar Falls, IA 50613
The Final Thursday Reading Series takes place on April 25 at the Hearst Center for the Arts in Cedar Falls, Iowa. There will be an open mic at 7:00 p.m. (bring your best five minutes of original creative writing). Micki Berthelot Morency, author of The Island Sisters, takes the stage at 7:30pm CDT. The featured reading will also be simulcast on Zoom. Click HERE to register for a link.
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Tombolo Books | 2153 1st Ave S., Saint Petersburg FL, USA, 33712
From Tombolo Books: Haitian American author Micki Berthelot Morency’s empowering debut novel, The Island Sisters, is filled with rich island culture, the human cost of abuse, and the unbreakable bond of friendship.
Tombolo Books is trilled to welcome local author, Micki Berthelot Morency to the bookstore to launch her debut novel, The Island Sisters.
Morency pulls from her experience as an advocate for women and children to depict the emotional journey of abuse survivorship and of women fighting for dignity, freedom, and their own lives. The Island Sisters is an empowering narrative told from alternating perspectives
of four women from Haiti, St. Thomas, and Guam. Micki Berthelot Morency has crafted four remarkable and hard-to-forget women whose fates are bound together by culture, by history, and most importantly, by a deep, irrevocable friendship.
Morency will be in conversation with fellow local author, Sheree L. Greer! Please RSVP here.
Thursday, June 22 at 6:30PM
West Community St Petersburg Library | 6700 8th Ave N, St Petersburg, FL 33710
Join Micki Berthelot Morency for a book reading and meet-and-greet for The Island Sisters at West Community St Petersburg Library!
Saturday, July 29, 2023 from 2:00-5:00pm
Barnes & Noble St Petersburg-Tyrone | 2501 Tyrone Boulevard, St Petersburg, FL 33710
Join Micki Berthelot Morency for a book signing and meet-and-greet to celebrate her debut novel, The Island Sisters, at Barnes & Noble St Petersburg-Tyrone.
Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 6:30PM
Safety Harbor Library | 101 2nd Street North, Safety Harbor, FL
Join Micki Berthelot Morency, author of the debut fiction novel The Island Sisters, for a live interview by local author Laura Kepner and book signing in collaboration with Portkey Books.
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 from 7:00 – 9:00PM
The Studio at 620 | 620 1st Avenue South, St Petersburg, FL 33701
Join Micki Berthelot Morency, author of the debut fiction novel The Island Sisters, at open mic night!
Friday, September 1, 2023, 6:30pm
Los Cocos | 269 SW Port St Lucie Blvd, Port St Lucie, FL 34984
Come meet author Micki Berthelot Morency and musician Yves Morency for an evening of literature and music that will transport you to Haiti in rhythm and prose. Micki will read from her debut novel The Island Sisters, and signed copies will be available for purchase that evening. To RSVP, please call 772-905-8458.
Thursday, October 12, 2023, 6:30pm
West Community Library @ SPC Gibbs Campus, Room LI 101 | 6700 8th Avenue North, St. Petersburg, FL 33710
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month! Join Micki Berthelot Morency as she discusses the theme of domestic violence and survivorship in her debut women's fiction novel The Island Sisters.
The Island Sisters is the story of four women from Haiti, St. Thomas, and Guam who met on a college campus in Miami. Their unyielding friendship is their touchstone across oceans, through labyrinths of forced marriages, violent men, motherhood, and their dreams of financial freedom.
Saturday, October 28, 2023 at 10:30AM
Woodson African American Museum of Florida | 2240 9th Ave S., St Petersburg, FL 33712
Join Micki Berthelot Morency for a discussion of The Island Sisters at the Books, Brunch, & Bubbles book club meeting!
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 6:30pm
Pressed LKLD Bookstore | 213 E. Bay St., Lakeland, F: 33801
Save the date! Join Micki Berthelot Morency, author of the debut fiction novel The Island Sisters, fat Pressed LKLD Bookstore on on Tuesday, November 14th, 2023 at 6:30pm. More details TBA.
Friday, November 17th - Sunday, November 19th, 2023
Wolfson Campus of Miami Dade College | 300 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33132
For eight days in November, Miami Book Fair transforms downtown into a literary wonderland, hosting hundreds of critically acclaimed authors in three languages talking politics, pop culture, and all manner of impactful prose. Get smart, buy books, meet authors, and bring the kids too! Stop by and see Micki Berthelot Morency with her debut novel The Island Sisters! For more information about the fair and to purchase tickets, visit https://www.miamibookfair.com/welcome-to-miami-book-fair/.