Author Talk with Linda Kaye-Moses

Join local author and artist Linda Kaye-Moses for a talk on her new novel: 

The Argentera and the Tales of the Six Arabesques

Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 4:00 p.m.
In-person at BCC
Free and open to the public

For over six hundred years, a Jewish goldsmith’s journal, describing the making of an enameled necklace, has been wandering far from where it was created in the Alsace to the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts. And on one bright spring day, in a used bookstore in upstate New York, the journal is finally found by Miriam, a studio jeweler and book lover. Feeling that the journal found her, she sets out to solve the mysteries the journal poses and find the lost jewel. From an ancient tale in the 5th century BCE to the journal’s original home in the 14th century, to Venice and Spain, Miriam’s search reveals long-held secrets, changing her life and the lives of those around her forever. The Argentera and the Tales of the Six Arabesques, a generation-spanning story, is ultimately about the stubborn, uncompromising and unshakeable strength of the human will and the possibility of transformation hidden in every object formed by a creative hand.

Linda Kaye-Moses is an uppity, unruly octogenarian author and an award-winning studio jeweler, living a life amazed by the magic inherent both in writing and in her objets. She graduated from the University of Vermont with unofficial majors in psychology, drama, and ancient history, so, naturally, she has been making her jewels for five decades and has always been a writer. She is the author of The Argentera and the Tales of the Six Arabesques; Pure Silver Metal Clay Beads; and a self-published memoir, Roots Stems and Branches; A Recollection. Her writing was included in Strong Shoulders and in Writing Fire: An Anthology Celebrating the Power of Women’s Words. She was a Writer’s Digest 2023 Award Winner. She lives with her husband in an old farmhouse, surrounded by lilacs and the green hills of western Massachusetts.