Local author at Dog Ears Books

Debut local author Jennifer Sager will read from her book, “Steph’s Story,” at Dog Ears Books in Northport on Thursday, August 13, beginning at 4 p.m.

Following her short reading, she will take questions from the audience.

Sager is a retired teacher and second child in a family of three girls. She never thought she would write a book and told me, “I don’t consider myself an author,” but when she began the story of her older sister, Steph, born with Down’s syndrome, she just couldn’t stop. Doctors told Steph’s parents she would only live about two years and should be institutionalized. The parents, however, kept their firstborn at home and subsequently added two more girls to their loving family.