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Novelist Lyndsey Ellis.

The weekly livestream series from the stage of Stoughton Opera House concludes with a book launch event for Bone Broth, the new novel by Lyndsey Ellis. The story of a Black family in St. Louis, the novel explores how they navigate society's inequities and their own interpersonal dynamics; Sarah Fenske of St. Louis Public Radio says the novel also tells “the story of St. Louis — with a half-century of history woven throughout its pages.” Music for the event will be by Milwaukee jazz-folk singer-songwriter Donna Woodall with bassist Ethan Bender and guitarist Bob Monagle. Find the livestream on YouTube. 

media release:  June 3 - Special reader’s event—Bone Broth Book Release with special guests The Donna Woodall Jazz Trio

The Stoughton Opera House is honored to host a virtual book release event for Lyndsey Ellis’s debut novel Bone Broth.

“Set in a struggling suburb of North St. Louis, Bone Broth excavates the social and familial issues that one Black family and their loved ones must navigate in order to survive.”

 Lyndsey will be joined on stage by Milwaukee’s Donna Woodall Jazz Trio.

This will be Episode #14 of our Almost Live series. The show is weekly on Thursdays and will hopefully provide some welcome relaxation time for you fine folks. Tonight’s episode is brought to you in part by the generous support of the Sugar Maple Music Festival, The Gandy Dancer Festival and all of our Opera House donors…thanks everybody!

Showtime is 7:30pm and it is 100% FREE - don’t let anyone fool you into clicking on a for pay link or collecting your personal information. Just go to our website and click on LIVE VIDEO for a link to our YouTube channel - or you can also CLICK HERE. The link to the show isn’t up just yet, but you’ll be be able to see it when you check back closer to show time.

Please consider tuning in tonight and we’ll “see” you at the show!

More on Bone Broth:

Set in a struggling suburb of North St. Louis, Bone Broth excavates the social and familial issues that one Black family and their loved ones must navigate in order to survive.

After the passing of their volatile patriarch, Justine and her adult children find themselves within one another’s daily orbit in trying ways. Justine, the new family matriarch, struggles to connect with her children and refuses to acknowledge the details of her murky past. Raynah, the unruly spitfire social activist, is determined to uncover the truth of that past so that she can move on with her present. Lois, the struggling real estate agent, contends with the reality of white flight while also dealing with the older emotional toll of violently losing her son. And Theo, the public servant, battles with the memory of violence, love lost, and his own sexuality.

Through these linked perspectives, Bone Broth delivers the touchstones of an inequitable society: violence, suppression, and the human capacity to continue in the face of extreme adversity. With clear, cutting, biting prose, Ellis explores how trauma affects family dynamics, how it permeates every aspect of life, and how reckoning and reconciliation require the strength and courage to confront all the broken, jagged memories from the past.

“With a sharp eye for detail that brings every character to bright, shining life, Lyndsey Ellis fearlessly explores the secrets that are a family's true inheritance. Bone Broth broke my heart and put it back together in even better shape.” — Chris L. Terry, author of Black Card

Lyndsey Ellis is a St. Louis-born fiction writer, essayist, and cultural worker. With a BA in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, she strives to explore intergenerational trauma, hardship, and struggle. In 2016, she was a recipient of the San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award and in 2018, she received a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for fiction. Bone Broth is her first novel.