YOU'RE INVITED: Step back in time with the Retracing the Witch Trials Tour

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Julia Park Tracey, author of Silence: A Novel, goes on tour!

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Retracing the Witch Trials

Get ready for a spellbinding experience! From October 19 to 30, award-winning author Julia Park Tracey embarks on her book tour for Silence: A Novel, making stops at bookstores, libraries, museums, historical societies, and festivals across New England.

As she delves into her acclaimed novel Silence, Julia will transport you back to the harrowing days of the witch trials. Learn about the era's fascinating handicrafts, the harsh limitations imposed on women, and the remarkable ways they found their voices amidst oppression. Discover the deep ancestral research (thanks to Ancestry.com®) that brings this captivating story to life.

Join us on this immersive and chilling journey into the past! Scroll down to view each tour event.

Follow Julia on tour!

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Living in New England? Attend events in person!

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Living elsewhere? Join by livestream!

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Busy but still scrolling? Enjoy event recaps!

“Park Tracey is a remarkable writer, and this book is another triumph. A historically astute and compelling must-read.”

—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

Read more about Silence

Julia Park Tracey

Bestselling historical fiction author Julia Park Tracey’s ancestors and their stories have given her a trail to follow from New York and New England to the Deep South and the Pacific Coast. The Bereaved: A Novel, the story of her great, great grandmother’s loss of her children to the Orphan Train was named in the top 100 indie books published in 2023 by Kirkus Reviews. Silence is the story of another “an-sister,” Silence Greenleaf.

EVENTS

3rd Annual New England Witches Guild Parade & Festival

19 October | 11AM

TikTok Live from Hingham & Cohasset Cemetery

20 October | 11AM & 1PM

Julia Park Tracey's Book & Puritan Talk at Old Ship Church

20 October | 4:30PM

TikTok Live from Deadwick's Ethereal Emporium in Portsmouth, NH

21 October | 4PM

Book Party at Fezziwig's

21 October | 6-8PM

Book & Puritan History Talk at Bunker Hill Community College

22 October | 1PM

TikTok Live from Bolton, MA

23 October | 11AM

Book & Puritan History Talk hosted by Weymouth Historical Society

24 October | 7PM

TikTok Live from the Boston Common

25 October | 11AM

TikTok Live from the Boston Book Festival

26 October | 11AM & 1PM

TikTok Live from Historic Boston Sites

27 October | 11AM & 1PM

Book Talk at Newtonville Books

29 October | 7PM

Silence: A Novel | Trade Paperback | $18 | ISBN: 9781736795491

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