Book Launch Party

Event Date: 
Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm
RSVP Required
Cost:
Included Items: 
Complimentary chocolates & sparkling wine, book signing.

Join Chocolate Chocolate sisters Frances Park and Ginger Park for a book launch party to celebrate their memoir: "CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE: The True Story of Two Sisters, Tons of Treats, and the Little Shop That Could." (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press).

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
  
Complimentary chocolates & sparkling wine.
  
Please RSVP at ginger@chocolatedc.com.

Publisher's Weekly review for CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE:
When their beloved father died suddenly, authors Frances and Ginger Park (To Swim Across the World) comforted themselves with chocolates and mused on opening a confectionery shop with their small inheritance. The idea felt right to them--"a shop our late father would've loved just by virtue of its contents: chocolates and daughters"--and despite their inexperience, they decide to go for it, with their mother as silent partner. In 1984, on the day f their Washington, D.C., store, named Chocolate Chocolate, opened, they already were beset with difficulties, from crumbling walls and cracking floors installed by a shoddy, shady contractor to trying to conjure strategies to gain attention and sales. Bit by bit, their clientele grows; the sisters write fondly and often humorously of the recurring characters in their new, chocolate-centric lives, from favorite customers to the kooky sales rep who becomes an employee and dear friend. They easily move between musings on friendship and family, all the while offering inspiration and valuable lessons for budding entrepreneurs. The recipe for their house truffle rounds out this appealing, engaging memoir that's sure to appeal to a range of readers, chocoholics or not.