**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Webinar via email.**  

What do you get when you combine a teen anxious to escape her country, a contentious factory environment, and rising political unease? The answer: Michelle Gallen's comedic and poignant novel, Factory Girls. Fly back to 1994 and hear about this hilarious and tension-filled story from the author herself. 

Michelle Gallen was born in County Tyrone in the mid 1970s and grew up during the Troubles a few miles from the border between what she was told was the "Free" State and the "United" Kingdom. She studied English literature at Trinity College Dublin and won several prestigious prizes as a young writer. Following a devastating brain injury in her midtwenties, Gallen co-founded three award-winning companies and won international recognition for digital innovation. She now lives in Dublin with her husband and kids.

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Presented in collaboration with the Wilmington Memorial Library.

NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 24 hours of the program.