Please�join Ilyon Woo (1994)�at the�New York event for her newly published book, THE GREAT DIVORCE, recently featured on NPR and in The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal. �The event is free and open to the public.��

6:30-8:00, with a dramatic presentation at 7:00. �Actors will deliver authentic testimonials by characters such as Eunice Hawley Chapman, the fiery mother who fought the Shakers for her children; her husband James Chapman, who stole the children from their home and secretly fled the state; Mother Lucy Wright, the supreme leader of the Shakers; New York Assemblyman Nathan Williams, who decried Eunice Chapmans sexually inappropriate behavior; and Thomas Jefferson, who weighed in on the controversial affair.

For more information, please visit www.ilyonwoo.com.

...a lively, well-written and engrossing tale....
--The New York Times Book Review

...a superb book--masterfully written, deeply suspenseful....
--Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Most Famous Man in America: A Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

....This is what history is all about.
--Nathaniel Philbrick, winner of the National Book Award, author of In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex