Events

Susan Gregg Gilmore, author of Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, returns to City Lights on Friday, October 1st at 7:00 p.m. to read from her new novel, The Improper Life of Bezillia Grove.Nobody in  Nashville has a bigger name to live up to than Bezellia Grove. As a Grove, she belongs to one of city's most prominent families and is expected to embrace her position in high society. And her first name has been passed down for generations to the first daughter of the eldest Grove. Relationships are complicated in 1960s Nashville, where society remains neatly ordered by class, status and skin color. When Bezellia has a clandestine affair with the son of her family's black servants, their romance is met with anger and fear from both families. In a time and place where rebelling against the rules carries a steep price, Bezellia Grove must decide which of her names will be the one that defines her.