The Newton Senior Center will host a free book talk by Elizabeth Millane, author of Sixty Blades of Grass — “an intriguing and dramatic, yet personal, story about the Dutch resistance during the Second World War.” The talk will be on April 25, 1PM-2PM, at the Hyde Community Center (90 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands).
RSVP is requested. Please stop by the Front Desk at Brigham House (20 Hartford Street, Newton Highlands), or call 617-796-1675, or send your name, telephone number, and email address to seniorprograms@newtonma.gov.
Inspired by the author’s own family history, Sixty Blades of Grass is a “riveting, heartrending novel of danger and betrayal that explores what it takes to lay down one’s life for another in the most harrowing of circumstances.”
Elizabeth Millane grew up along the shores of Lake Michigan, loving books and family stories. She was educated at Boston College, earning a Bachelor of Art in English literature, and at the University of Lancaster, Lancaster, England, where she completed a Junior Year Abroad program. During that year that she traveled extensively on the continent, visiting her Dutch relatives several times and learning their tales of heroism and sacrifice, which formed the basis for Sixty Blades of Grass.
