Local author to present new novel at Matheson History Museum

Local author and retired UF law school professor Elizabeth McCulloch will present her new novel, Year of the Child, on Sunday, Feb. 2, at The Matheson Museum. Photo by Renee Hoffinger
Local author and retired UF law school professor Elizabeth McCulloch will present her new novel, “Year of the Child,” on Sunday, Feb. 2, at The Matheson Museum.
Photo by Renee Hoffinger

Local author and retired UF law school professor Elizabeth McCulloch will present her new novel, “Year of the Child,” on Sunday, Feb. 2, at The Matheson History Museum.

The event will be from 3 to 5 p.m. at 513 E. University Ave. in Gainesville. McCulloch will read from her novel and sign copies of the book, which will be available for purchase.  

The book, which coincides with the start of Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month in February, “draws upon McCulloch’s diverse experiences — working in legal aid in Jacksonville, Florida, teaching family law at the University of Florida, and volunteering, over decades, to assist homeless people in Alachua County — to write about a teen mother’s struggle within an abusive relationship, in which her boyfriend forces her to abandon their infant daughter,” according to a release.

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The novel will be released by Tallahassee-based Twisted Road Publications on Friday, Jan. 31, and will be available for sale at Sunday’s event.

“The Year of the Child is the story of not one, but two children, one newly born and one forced out of childhood into adulthood,” Gainesville-based author Rhonda Riley wrote in her review of McCulloch’s new novel, to be published Friday, Jan. 31, by Twisted Road Publications.

The event will also include a presentation from Peaceful Paths, a local nonprofit that operates a residential shelter for victims of domestic violence and also conducts violence-prevention education programs in schools and at other locations in Alachua, Bradford, and Union counties.

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