A Traveling Author Returns Home: an Afternoon with Jenny Milchman

The Morristown & Morris
Township Library will host local author Jenny Milchman for a unique reading and
author talk in an event sponsored by the Friends of the Morristown & Morris
Township Library.  Refreshments will be
served and copies of Cover of Snow will
be available for purchase.

Inspired in part by an experience
she had as a child, Jenny Milchman shapes an intricate, exhilarating story in
her literary thriller Cover of Snow
(Ballantine, 2013).  Milchman’s
babysitter confessed to her one night that he was planning to kill himself.  By telling her parents when they returned, the
babysitter was found, and saved.

“That experience was formative,”
she remembers. “In years to come I felt terrified that the decision had been
left in my eight year old hands.”

Milchman eventually started a
career as a psychotherapist, helping people professionally find a way out of
their desperation. And while her expert background influences her writing, so
does the work of literary greats such as Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, and Nancy
Pickard, who describes Milchman’s debut as “absorbing from start to finish.”

In Cover of Snow, Nora Hamilton wakes to find her policeman husband
missing from their bed. Minutes later, Nora discovers his body, a victim of
suicide. He left no note or sign of why he’d take his own life, and the
grieving wife wants answers. Her search in an insular, frigid mountain town
that is determined to keep its deadly secrets buried proves more and more
difficult as she meets resistance from her husband’s friends, partner, and his
own mother.