Reunion Beach [text (large print)] : stories inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank / preface by Carrie Feron ; foreword by Peter Frank ; introduction by Victoria Benton Frank ; afterword by William Frank ; Patti Callahan, Elin Hilderbrand, Adriana Trigiani, Mary Alice Monroe, Cassandra King Conroy [and 5 others].

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

In this warm and moving anthology, a group of bestselling authors and writers pay tribute to legendary, larger-than-life New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank and her literary legacy.

Inspired by the title Dorothea Benton Frank planned for her next book--Reunion Beach--these close friends and colleagues channeled their creativity, admiration, and grief into stories and poems that celebrate this remarkable woman and her abiding love for the Lowcountry of her native South Carolina--a land of beauty, history, charm, and Gullah magic she so brilliantly brought to life in her acclaimed novels.

From Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author, a sequel to Summer of '69.

From Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author, comes a heartwarming, humorous interview from the hereafter with Pat Conroy and Dorothea Benton Frank, two beloved icons of Southern literature.

From Patti Callahan, bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis and Surviving Savannah, comes The Bridemaids, a story about a trip to the South Carolina beach.

From Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author, Mother and Child Reunion, a heartwarming story set under the warm South Carolina sun.

Reunion Beach also features letters, short stories, poems, and essays from:

Mary Norris, New York Times bestselling author and staff writer for The New Yorker Cassandra King Conroy, bestselling and award-winning author of Tell Me A Story Nathalie Dupree, James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Marjory Wentworth, former Poet Laureate of South Carolina Gervais Hagerty, author of In Polite Company Jacqueline Bouvier Lee, Peter Frank, Victoria Peluso, and William Frank

Infused with Dorothea Benton Frank's remarkable spirit, Reunion Beach is a literary homage and beautiful keepsake that keeps this dearly missed writer's flame burning bright.

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Booklist Review

When Dorothea Benton Frank died in 2019, she left behind the kernel of an idea, Reunion Beach. Here her writer friends take up the mantle. Patti Callahan has four old friends convening on a remote Low Country island to talk through a surprise proposal. Elin Hilderbrand revisits her characters from Summer of '69 (2019) at a bonfire that shakes up generations of the Foley-Levin family. Adriana Trigiani imagines Frank meeting old friend Pat Conroy in heaven, where a cornbread-making contest ensues. Mary Alice Monroe offers an affecting tale of the reunion between a librarian and her birth mother, and Cassandra King Conroy imagines a cooking-show family dinner gone hilariously wrong. The anthology is rounded out by remembrances from those whose lives Frank touched, including New Yorker copy editor and author Mary Norris and poet Marjory Wentworth, whose work served as epigraphs in Frank's books. And there are recipes, a fitting tribute to a woman who was as dedicated to throwing a good dinner party as she was to writing. This is a must-read for Frank's legion of fans, who will leave the book with a sense of the author as larger than life in her work, in her generosity, and in her personality.