Join the Chatham County Community Library for an Indigo Field Discussion with Marjorie Hudson Thu, Sep 5, 1pm-2pm. The local author will discuss her award-winning novel, Indigo Field, and afterward, copies will be available for purchase.

This event is free and open to the public. Residents may visit the library’s website, www.chathamlibraries.org, or contact the library at 919.545.8084 for information on this and other events and programs. Media members interested in attending/covering this event are asked to notify Public Information Officer Kara Lusk in advance at 919-542-8258 or [email protected].

ABOUT THE BOOK

Indigo Field tells the story of a retired colonel in the rural South who runs into the car of an elderly Black woman, setting off a chain of events that reveals the hidden history of the empty field that lies between their homes. The novel has received the Sir Walter Raleigh Award, North Carolina’s highest fiction honor. Indigo Field was also a finalist for the Crooks Corner Prize for Southern Fiction and was selected as a great group read by the Women’s National Book Association. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marjorie Hudson was born in a small town in Illinois and raised in Washington, D.C., where she graduated from American University with a degree in Journalism and Women’s Studies. After serving as features editor of National Parks Magazine, she moved to rural North Carolina, working as a freelance writer. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and lives with her husband, Sam, and feisty small terrier DJ, on a century farm in North Carolina.