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SUMMARY:Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club - “Unearthing” with Kyo Maclear
DESCRIPTION:An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test\, the lessons learned in its aftermath\, and the indelible power of love—for readers of Dani Shapiro’s Inheritanceand Katherine May’s Wintering. \n“Magnificent…I will never forget it.” —Dani Shapiro\, author of Inheritance  \n“A mind-altering and supremely generous exploration of kinship\, selfhood\, memory\, and the roots we share across time\, space and species.” —Naomi Klein\, author of This Changes Everything \nThree months after Kyo Maclear’s father dies in December 2018\, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life\, unravelling a family mystery piece by piece\, and assembling the story of her biological father. Along the way\, larger questions arise: what exactly is kinship? And what does it mean to be a family? \nUnearthing is a captivating and propulsive story of inheritance that goes beyond heredity. Infused with moments of suspense\, it is also a thoughtful reflection on race\, lineage\, and our cultural fixation on recreational genetics. Readers of Michelle Zauner’s bestseller Crying in H Mart will recognize Maclear’s unflinching insights on grief and loyalty\, and keen perceptions into the relationship between mothers and daughters. \nWhat gets planted\, and what gets buried? What role does storytelling play in unearthing the past and making sense of a life? Can the humble act of tending a garden provide common ground for an inquisitive daughter and her complicated mother? As it seeks to answer these questions\, Unearthingbursts with the very love it seeks to understand. \n“[A] masterful\, original and poetic memoir… As Kyo slowly realizes that the father she’s mourning isn’t actually her father\, she unearths truths she never saw coming. A mix of literary tactics like repetition and short form sections\, this unique\, powerful and captivating memoir mixed with gardening and plant life\, is truly a wow.”–Zibby Owens\, Good Morning America  \n“Many memoirs have examined issues of paternity and parental infidelity\, but Maclear’s stands out due to elegant writing and insightful musings on the making and shaping of identities\, always with the garden behind her to provide an anchor… A lovely  meditation on the hidden past and the blossoming present.”–Kirkus Reviews \n“In this magnificent\, searing memoir\, Kyo Maclear takes us on a journey that is at once singular and utterly universal. What forces contribute to who we are and who we become? And what happens when the story we know to be true of ourselves is uprooted\, unearthed? In poetic language that cuts to the bone\, Maclear grapples with these questions and the result is a profound reading experience. I will never forget it.”– Dani Shapiro\, author of Inheritance  \n“Unearthing is simply staggering. Maclear takes the shocking revelations of a DNA test and transforms them into a mind-altering and supremely generous exploration of kinship\, selfhood\, memory\, and the roots we share across time\, space and species. A quantum leap for an already brilliant and profound writer and thinker.” –Naomi Klein\, author of This Changes Everything\nAbout The Author: \nKyo Maclear was born in London\, England\, and moved to Toronto at the age of four. Her most recent book\, Birds Art Life\, was published in seven territories and became a Canadian #1 bestseller. Kyo received a PhD from York University in the environmental humanities. Her short fiction\, essays\, and art criticism have been published in Orion Magazine\, Asia Art Pacific\, LitHub\, Brick\, The Millions\, The Guardian\, Shambhala Sun\, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)\, among other publications. She is also a children’s author\, editor\, and teacher.
URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/warwicks-sdwf-book-club-unearthing-with-kyo-maclear/
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SUMMARY:Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club - “Go as a River” with Shelley Read
DESCRIPTION:National Bestseller  \n“An auspicious debut.”—Kirkus (starred review) \n“Shelley Read’s lyrical voice is a force of nature\, and when she lends it to a woman leading a hardscrabble life in rural Colorado\, the result is tragic\, uplifting—and completely unforgettable.”—Bonnie Garmus\, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry \nRights Sold in 30 Territories * March Indie Next Pick * Apple Books\, Most Anticipated Books of 2023 * Barnes & Noble\, Most Anticipated Books of March * Barnes & Noble\, Exclusive Edition * Amazon\, Editors’ Pick * Publishers Marketplace\, Buzz Books Editors Panel Pick * Zibby Magazine\, Most Anticipated Books of 2023 * Thoughts From A Page\, Most Anticipated Historical Fiction of 2023 * Book Girls Guide\, Best Book Club Books for 2023 * Real Simple\, Best Books of 2023 \n\n“Affecting.”—Publishers Weekly  \n“Beautiful . . . A striking first novel of love and strength and growth\, set against the forests and rivers of Colorado’s high country. Read is a gifted writer\, and the book is a literary triumph.”―Denver Post \n“With gorgeous descriptions of the great outdoors\, an illicit love story\, and an unforgettable protagonist\, Go as a River offers something for everyone.”―Real Simple \n“Evocative . . . moving . . . fascinating. . . .Through lush imagery of the natural world\, GO AS A RIVER shows the possibility of growing in the most challenging of circumstances\, the power that flows through us\, and how the natural world can give us the strength to keep on going.”―The i Paper \n“In this lyrical debut novel\, a “small fateful twist” overtakes an isolated young woman seeking the courage and resilience to keep flowing forward\, as a river\, against all obstacles\, in post-WWII Colorado… Read\, a fifth-generation Coloradan\, draws characters and settings with period authenticity\, stunning imagery\, and deft metaphors.”—Booklist \n“GO AS A RIVER is a stunning debut set in the soul of the American dream.”—Adriana Trigiani\, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone \n“Completely spellbinding\, vivid\, and luminous.”—Jane Green\, bestselling author of Sister Stardust \n“In GO AS A RIVER\, Shelley Read delivers a heartbreaking and uplifting tale of a girl becoming a woman in a man’s world. Young Victoria Nash is as tough and resilient as the Colorado mountains where she takes refuge\, and as tender as the peaches that are her family legacy.”—Tiffany Quay Tyson\, author of The Past Is Never \n“Shelley Read’s devastatingly beautiful debut\, GO AS A RIVER\, delivers so very much: the tenderness and curiosity of young love\, the eternal pangs of loss\, the brutality of racism\, the sustaining power of nature even in the face of man’s destruction\, and the precarious miracle of a mother’s love. Suffused with wisdom and compassion\, this shattering testimony to life is one to be savored\, treasured\, shared.”—Meg Waite Clayton\, bestselling author of The Postmistress of Paris \n“This soaring\, compassionate tale of female resilience is set against a breath-taking picture of our natural world—its trees and mountains and light.”—The Independent (UK) \nSet amid Colorado’s wild beauty\, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter. A tragic and uplifting novel of love and loss\, family\, and survival—and hope—for readers of Great Circle\, The Four Winds\, and Where the Crawdads Sing.  \nSeventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family’s peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola\, Colorado—the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past\, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses.  \n  \nVictoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner\, a meeting that profoundly alters their young lives\, unknowingly igniting as much passion as danger. When tragedy strikes\, Victoria leaves the only life she has ever known. She flees into the surrounding mountains\, where she struggles to survive in the wilderness\, with no clear notion of what her future will bring. As the seasons change\, she also charts the changes in herself\, finding in the beautiful but harsh landscape the meaning and strength to move forward and rebuild all that she has lost\, even as the Gunnison River threatens to submerge her homeland—its ranches\, farms\, and the beloved peach orchard that has been in her family for generations.  \n  \nRead is a fifth-generation Coloradan who received her MFA in her twenties but then went on to teach literature and environmental studies and raise two kids. Now in her 50s\, she finally returned to the novel she’d started many years ago. She writes:  \n  \n“This novel gets at the heart of what is most valuable to me and what I think the world needs now: a strong connection to nature\, a belief in love\, and a deep faith in personal resilience. I hope that my novel will leave readers exploring some of the relevant issues of our time—displacement\, prejudice\, and notions of progress; the value of women\, mothers\, and the natural world; resilience in the face of adversity; and\, of course\, the extraordinary power of love.”  \n  \nInspired by true events surrounding the destruction of the town of Iola in the 1960s\, GO AS A RIVER is a story of deeply held love in the face of hardship and loss\, but also of finding courage\, resilience\, friendship\, and\, finally\, home—where least expected.  \nShelley Read is a fifth-generation Coloradoan who lives with her family in the Elk Mountains of the Western Slope. She was a senior lecturer at Western Colorado University for nearly three decades\, where she taught writing\, literature\, environmental studies\, and Honors\, and was a founder of the Environment & Sustainability major and a support program for first-generation and at-risk students. Shelley holds degrees in writing and literary studies from the University of Denver and Temple University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing. She is a regular contributor to Crested ButteMagazine and Gunnison Valley Journal and has written for the Denver Post and a variety of publications. Go As A River is her first novel\, and is being published in 30 territories around the globe. ShelleyRead.com\n 
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SUMMARY:Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club presents "The Matchmaker's Gift" with Lynda Cohen Loigman
DESCRIPTION:Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club present The Matchmaker’s Gift with Lynda Cohen Loigman\nTime: Thursday\, April 20\, 2023\, 5:00-6:00 PM Pacific Time \nBuy the Book: Click here to buy from Warwick’s \nA Facebook Live Event: Join us here \n\nNamed a Best Book of Fall by Parade • BuzzFeed • New York Post • GMA.com • People\n\n“Loigman’s latest is a gem. A scrappy Jewish teenager newly arrived in 1920s New York struggles to follow her calling as a matchmaker––seventy years later\, her cynical divorce-attorney granddaughter realizes she has very inconveniently inherited the family gift for matching soulmates. Both funny and moving\, The Matchmaker’s Gift made me smile from start to finish.”\n––Kate Quinn\, New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code \nIs finding true love a calling or a curse? \nEven as a child in 1910\, Sara Glikman knows her gift: she is a maker of matches and a seeker of soulmates. But among the pushcart-crowded streets of New York’s Lower East Side\, Sara’s vocation is dominated by devout older men—men who see a talented female matchmaker as a dangerous threat to their traditions and livelihood. After making matches in secret for more than a decade\, Sara must fight to take her rightful place among her peers\, and to demand the recognition she deserves. \nTwo generations later\, Sara’s granddaughter\, Abby\, is a successful Manhattan divorce attorney\, representing the city’s wealthiest clients. When her beloved Grandma Sara dies\, Abby inherits her collection of handwritten journals recording the details of Sara’s matches. But among the faded volumes\, Abby finds more questions than answers. Why did Abby’s grandmother leave this library to her and what did she hope Abby would discover within its pages? Why does the work Abby once found so compelling suddenly feel inconsequential and flawed? Is Abby willing to sacrifice the career she’s worked so hard for in order to keep her grandmother’s mysterious promise to a stranger? And is there really such a thing as love at first sight? \n\n\nAbout the author:\nLynda Cohen Loigman is the author of The Wartime Sisters and The Two-Family House. She received a B.A. in English and American Literature from Harvard College and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. She grew up in Longmeadow\, MA\, and now lives in Chappaqua\, NY. \n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\nPraise for The Matchmaker’s Gift:\n“Insightful\, charming and packed with historical New York details\, The Matchmaker’s Gift is a tribute to the bonds of family and taking a chance on true love.” ––Shelf Awareness \n“Loigman has a gift herself: the ability to evoke places and scenes with the subtlest of details. She takes us all over town in time and space: a crowded French bakery on the Upper East Side and narrow streets lined with sweltering tenements; the audience gathering at dusk for the Shakespeare Festival in Central Park and a Tribeca party sparkling with celebrities and high fashion.” ––BookTrib \n“The plot employs some mag­i­cal real­ism [and] sim­mers with vibrant detail…Loigman’s research exudes authen­tic­i­ty\, invok­ing the sights and smells of a bygone Low­er East Side. The his­tor­i­cal chap­ters are com­pelling; the more con­tem­po­rary ones are equal­ly so. A fas­ci­nat­ing nar­ra­tive.” ––Jewish Book Council \n“As we follow these parallel storylines\, Sara and Abby follow their destinies with an abundance of character and charm. Plus\, the dual timelines are rife with fun historical details.” ––BuzzFeed \n“Loigman’s thorough exploration of turn-of-the century\, Jewish immigrant culture and her smooth transitions into the 1990s give the reader a full and satisfying picture of Manhattan across the twentieth century. The details are painstaking but never tedious\, and the relationships are exciting\, sincere\, and beautiful.” ––Booklist
URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/warwicks-sdwf-book-club-present-the-matchmakers-gift-with-lynda-cohen-loigman/
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SUMMARY:Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club present Hester: A Novel by Laurie Lico Albanese
DESCRIPTION:Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club: Hester: A Novel by Laurie Lico Albanese\nTime: Thursday\, January 26\, 2023\, 5:00-6:00 PM Pacific Time \nBuy the Book: Click here to buy from Warwick’s \nA Facebook Live Event: Join us here \nNamed a Most Anticipated Book for Fall by Goodreads • Washington Post • New York Post • BuzzFeed • PopSugar • Business Insider • An October Indie Next List Pick • An October LibraryReads Pick \n“A hauntingly beautiful––and imagined––origin story to The Scarlet Letter.” ––People \nWHO IS THE REAL HESTER PRYNNE?Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband\, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium\, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Glasgow for a fresh start in the New World. But only days after they’ve arrived in Salem\, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medic––leaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country\, forced to make her way by any means possible. \nWhen she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne\, the two are instantly drawn to each other: he is a man haunted by his ancestors\, who sent innocent women to the gallows––while she is an unusually gifted needleworker\, troubled by her own strange talents. As the weeks pass and Edward’s safe return grows increasingly unlikely\, Nathaniel and Isobel grow closer and closer. Together\, they are a muse and a dark storyteller; the enchanter and the enchanted. But which is which? \nIn this sensuous and hypnotizing tale\, a young immigrant woman grapples with our country’s complicated past\, and learns that America’s ideas of freedom and liberty often fall short of their promise. Interwoven with Isobel and Nathaniel’s story is a vivid interrogation of who gets to be a “real” American in the first half of the 19th century\, a depiction of the early days of the Underground Railroad in New England\, and atmospheric interstitials that capture the long history of “unusual” women being accused of witchcraft. Meticulously researched yet evocatively imagined\, Laurie Lico Albanese’s Hester is a timeless tale of art\, ambition\, and desire that examines the roots of female creative power and the men who try to shut it down. \n\n\n\n“A unique take on a story that tackles what it costs to be an “unusual” woman.” ––BuzzFeed \n“Albanese’s novel will engage readers seeking racial themes\, a resilient heroine\, and a feminist origin story for one of America’s always relevant nineteenth-century classics.” ––Booklist \n“A lovely fictional look at the origins of [Hawthorne’s] masterpiece…the rich details of life in Salem in the early 19th century\, and especially about Isobel’s creative work as a seamstress and designer\, enliven the tale.” ––Kirkus \n“A standout historical… Even those unfamiliar with the classic will be hooked by this account of a capable woman standing up to the sexist and racial prejudices of her time.” ––Publishers Weekly \n“Hester is a vividly reimagined portrayal of the tragic heroine in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. “Full of lush and colorful prose\, this is a tale of one woman’s determination and self-reliance amid the ‘new world’ of 19th-century Salem\, which teems with festering secrets and alluring prospects. A message of resilience\, Hester proves that a woman will do whatever she must to prosper\, even when she is left with nothing but courage―and a few secrets of her own.” ––Sarah Penner\, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary \n“Albanese has written a masterpiece that should be required reading alongside Hawthorne’s classic tale of adultery. Rich in detail and hauntingly lyrical\, she examines the myriad ways that extraordinary women are judged harshly and forced to downplay their gifts in order to conform to society’s demands. Enthralling\, ambitious\, and a total knock-out.” ––Fiona Davis\, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue \n“A rich tapestry of a novel. In dreamlike yet vivid prose\, Albanese weaves a story about 19th century Salem\, a place with a dark history where secrets still abound\, and conjures the life of Hawthorne’s muse\, a woman whose skill and imagination are both the key to her survival and the source of others’ mistrust and envy. Vivid\, complex\, and intricately detailed.” ––Christina Baker Kline\, #1 New York Times bestselling author \n“This page-turning and poignant novel beautifully imagines the untold life story of the woman who went down in literary history wearing a scarlet letter. Albanese lets the reader accompany her through an early life of secret powers and difficult attachments on her way to becoming a strong and independent woman.” ––Alice Elliott Dark\, author of Fellowship Point \n“The diverse women at the heart of The Crucible\, the Salem witch trials\, and The Scarlet Letter at last get their say―in full-throated technicolor. A luminous blend of fiction and truth\, with an extraordinarily gifted heroine at its center\, Hester weaves together a spellbinding tapestry of Salem history as it has never been told before.” ––Afia Atakora\, author of Conjure Women \n\n\nLaurie Lico Albanese has published fiction\, poetry\, journalism\, travel writing\, creative nonfiction\, and memoir. Her books include Stolen Beauty\, Blue Suburbia: Almost a Memoir\, Lynelle by the Sea\, and The Miracles of Prato\, co-written with art historian Laura Morowitz. Laurie is married to a publishing executive and is the mother of two children.
URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/warwicks-sdwf-book-club-present-hester-a-novel-by-laurie-lico-albanese/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Club: Warwick's + SDWF Book Club Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
DESCRIPTION:Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club: Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda \nTime: September 29\, 2022\, 5:00-6:00 PM Pacific Time  \nBuy the Book: Click here to buy from Warwick’s \n\nA Facebook Live Event. Click here to join. \n\n\n\n\n\nMoving and thought-provoking and informative and imaginative and beautifully executed.  What a wonderful story!”\n—Mary Jane Clark \n“This book is a must for anyone touched by adoption\, or India\, or the delicate dynamic between adolescent girls and their mothers.”\n—Sujata Massey\, author of Shimura Trouble \nSecret Daughter\, a first novel by Shilpi Somaya Gowda\, explores powerfully and poignantly the emotional terrain of motherhood\, loss\, identity\, and love through the experiences of two families—one Indian\, one American—and the child that binds them together. A masterful work set partially in the Mumbai slums so vividly portrayed in the hit film Slumdog Millionaire\, Secret Daughter recalls the acclaimed novels of Kim Edwards and Thrity Umrigar\, yet sparkles with the freshness of a truly exciting new literary voice. \n  \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Author:\nShilpi Somaya Gowda was born and raised in Toronto\, Canada. Her previous novels\, Secret Daughter and The Golden Son became international bestsellers\, selling over one million copies worldwide. She holds an MBA from Stanford University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, where she was a Morehead-Cain scholar. She lives in California with her husband and children.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Club: Warwick's + SDWF Book Club Never Simple: A Memoir\, featuring Liz Scheier
DESCRIPTION:Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club: Never Simple: A Memoir\, featuring Liz Scheier  \nTime: June16\, 2022\, 5:00-6:00 PM Pacific Time  \nBuy the Book: Click here to buy from Warwick’s \n\nA Facebook Live Event. Click here to join. \n\n\n\nLiz Scheier’s darkly funny and touching memoir—with shades of Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle and Mira Bartók’s The Memory Palace—of growing up in ’90s Manhattan with a brilliant\, mendacious single mother. \nScheier’s mother Judith was a news junkie\, a hilarious storyteller\, a fast-talking charmer you couldn’t look away from\, a single mother whose devotion crossed the line into obsession\, and—when in the grips of the mental illness that plagued every day of her life—a violent and abusive liar whose hold on reality was shaky at best. On an uneventful afternoon when Scheier was eighteen\, her mother sauntered into the room to tell her two important things: one\, she had been married for most of Scheier’s life to a man she’d never heard of\, and two\, the man she’d told Scheier was her father was entirely fictional. She’d made him up. Those two big lies were the start\, but not the end; it took dozens of smaller lies to support them\, and by the time she was done she had built a farcical\, half-true life for the two of them\, from fake social security number to fabricated husband. \nOne hot July day twenty years later\, Scheier receives a voicemail from Adult Protective Services\, reporting that Judith has stopped paying rent and is refusing all offers of assistance. That call is the start of a shocking journey that takes the Scheiers\, mother and daughter\, deep into the cascading effects of decades of lies and deception. \nNever Simple is the story of learning to survive—and\, finally\, trying to save—a complicated parent\, as feared as she is loved\, and as self-destructive as she is adoring. \n\n\n\nLiz Scheier is a former Penguin Random House editor who worked in publishing and content development for many years\, including at Barnes & Noble.com and Amazon. She writes book reviews and feature articles for Publishers Weekly. She is now a product developer living in Washington\, D.C.\, with her husband\, two small children\, and an ill-behaved cat. Never Simple is her first book.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Club: Warwick's + SDWF Book Club Beneficence featuring bestselling-author Meredith Hall
DESCRIPTION:Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club: Beneficence featuring bestselling-author Meredith Hall \nTime: Apr 14\, 2022\, 5:00-6:00 PM Pacific Time  \n  \n\nBuy the Book: Click here to buy from Warwick’s\nA Facebook Live Event. Click here to join. \n\nAfter a sudden and terrible loss\, how does a loving family find their way back to the goodness and peace they once shared? Reviewers and readers have called this literary historical novel “hauntingly beautiful\,” “a masterpiece of compassion\,” “a page-turner and an artistic triumph.”\nWritten by a masterful storyteller\, this is a book that illuminates the journey we make through grief to healing. \nIn the midst of a nearly perfect life\, Doris Senter is thankful but wary. “We can’t ever know what will come\,” she says. When an unimaginable tragedy turns the family of five into a family of four\, everything the Senters held faith in is shattered. The family is consumed by sorrow and guilt. Slowly\, the surviving family members find their way to forgiveness―of themselves and of each other. \nFew writers know the human heart and the burden of grief as New York Times bestselling author Meredith Hall (Without a Map). This is a radiant novel of goodness and love―both its gifts and its obligations―that will stay with readers long after the last page. With a rare tenderness and compassion\, Beneficence shows broken hearts becoming whole as this family reclaims their love and peace. \n\nWhat people are saying: \n\n“People stay together\, fall apart\, come back together\, altered. It is a book about work\, about grief\, about thick ongoing love. Hall’s prose is hewn\, sinewy\, with moments of electrifying beauty and grace.”―Boston Globe \n“One of the best books I’ve ever read.”―Simon Van Booy \n“As organically as it traveled to heartbreak\, Beneficence progresses to the place of wisdom that lies beyond it\, where we learn that a home is part of the ‘vast world of innocence and harm\,’ not an island beyond it.”―Wall Street Journal \n“A modern American masterpiece.”―Dani Shapiro \n“If the word ‘luminous’ didn’t already exist\, you’d have to invent it to describe Meredith Hall’s radiant new novel Beneficence.”―Richard Russo \n“These voices from the past speak so clearly to our time\, at a moment when many of us wonder whether we’ll lose the things that we consider blessings….Beneficence is a quiet but steady book\, one that echoes ancient and important rhythms.”―Washington Post \n“A quiet gem…hard to put down.”―Library Journal\n\n\nMeredith Hall‘s memoir Without a Map was instantly recognized as a classic of the genre and became a New York Times bestseller. It was named Best Book of the Year by Kirkus and BookSense\, as well as Elle’s “Readers’ Pick of the Year.” Ms. Hall was a recipient of the 2004 Gift of Freedom Award from A Room of Her Own Foundation. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Paris Review\, Five Points\, Gettysburg Review\, Kenyon Review\, Southern Review\, and many other journals. Hall divides her time between Maine and California. \nWebsite: https://meredithhall.org \nTwitter: @MerHallBooks
URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/virtual-book-club-sdmwa-warwicks-sdwf-book-club-beneficence-featuring-bestselling-author-meredith-hall/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Club: SDMWA & Warwick's + SDWF Book Club House of Sticks: A Memoir with Ly Tran
DESCRIPTION:SDMWA & Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club House of Sticks: A Memoir with Ly Tran \nTime: Feb 5\, 2022\, 02:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \n \n\nBuy the Book: Click here to buy from Warwick’s\nA Facebook Live Event. Click here to join. \nand \nJoin Zoom Meeting. Click here to join.\nMeeting ID: 883 6389 6322\nPasscode: 144210 \n\nOne of Vogue and NPR’s Best Books of the Year \nThis beautifully written “masterclass in memoir” (Elle) recounts a young girl’s journey from war-torn Vietnam to Queens\, New York\, “showcas[ing] the tremendous power we have to alter the fates of others\, step into their lives and shift the odds in favor of greater opportunity” (Star Tribune\, Minneapolis). \nLy Tran is just a toddler in 1993 when she and her family immigrate from a small town along the Mekong river in Vietnam to a two-bedroom railroad apartment in Queens. Ly’s father\, a former lieutenant in the South Vietnamese army\, spent nearly a decade as a POW\, and their resettlement is made possible through a humanitarian program run by the US government. Soon after they arrive\, Ly joins her parents and three older brothers sewing ties and cummerbunds piece-meal on their living room floor to make ends meet. \nAs they navigate this new landscape\, Ly finds herself torn between two worlds. She knows she must honor her parents’ Buddhist faith and contribute to the family livelihood\, working long hours at home and eventually as a manicurist alongside her mother at a nail salon in Brooklyn that her parents take over. But at school\, Ly feels the mounting pressure to blend in. \nA growing inability to see the blackboard presents new challenges\, especially when her father forbids her from getting glasses\, calling her diagnosis of poor vision a government conspiracy. His frightening temper and paranoia leave a mark on Ly’s sense of self. Who is she outside of everything her family expects of her? \nAn “unsentimental yet deeply moving examination of filial bond\, displacement\, war trauma\, and poverty” (NPR)\, House of Sticks is a timely and powerful portrait of one girl’s coming-of-age and struggle to find her voice amid clashing cultural expectations. \n\n\nGet your copy at Warwicks here.\n\n LY TRAN graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Creative Writing and Linguistics in 2014. She has received fellowships from MacDowell\, Art Omi\, and Yaddo. House of Sticks is her first book.\n\nVideo of Ly talking about her book from her publisher’s site:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVzJdn-5n70&ab_channel=Simon%26SchusterBooks\n\n\nMore Reviews: \n“Tran fluctuates between tenderness and quiet rage … [Tran] honor[s] these complexities\, tell[s] us we were not meant to swallow our pain and survive in this world without support systems.”\n—New York Times Book Review“[An] unsentimental yet deeply moving examination of filial bond\, displacement\, war trauma\, and poverty. Ostensibly an immigrant success story\, Tran’s narrative power lies in its nuanced celebration of filial devotion that withstands the enormous cost of the American dream … The dilapidated nail salon in a racially volatile Brooklyn neighborhood that Tran’s parents came to own after the end of their sweatshop era — with its filing sticks as tools of the trade — witnessed their stark tribulations as well as the wondrous resilience of their immigrant selves. In the end\, Tran’s empathy and her parents’ appreciation of her filial love cemented the emotional bricks that steady their seemingly tenuous hold on this unaccustomed earth.”\n—NPR”Powerful … showcases the tremendous power we have to alter the fates of others\, step into their lives and shift the odds in favor of greater opportunity”\n—Minneapolis Star Tribune“House of Sticks is a book that will assault and warm your heart at the same time—a classic immigrant tale\, told from the perspective of a Vietnamese child who settled with her family in New York City in the early ’90s with little to no knowledge about life in America… But it is also much more: a coming of age story\, A New York hustle\, a battle with a father who not only maintains an ironclad sense of filial duty\, but also\, fueled by his paranoia\, exercises irrational control over things like vision correction. (In another elegant examination of absence\, the book recounts what a fundamental challenge it is to move through the world without basic ability to see.)”\n—Vogue\, Best Books to Read 2021″Graceful but unflinching\, Ly Tran’s House of Sticks follows the author’s immigration from Vietnam to New York as a toddler\, and the subsequent identity shaping and re-shaping she undergoes throughout her youth and early adult years. Resettled in Queens through a humanitarian program—her father is a former POW—Tran attempts to honor her family through faith and labor\, only to find herself yearning for something that exists outside of their home. Intimate yet universal\, this is a masterclass in memoir.”\n—Elle\, Best Books of Summer 2021″A moving recount of how Tran and her family immigrated from a small town in Vietnam to a two-bedroom railroad apartment in Queens\, and how she forged her path in a new culture.”\n—Marie Claire\, 20 New Books by Asian Authors to Get Excited About \n\n\n\nSocial media/Website:\n\n@LyTranWrites (Twitter)  \nWww.LyTran.me (Author Website) 
URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/virtual-book-club-sdmwa-warwicks-sdwf-book-club-house-of-sticks-a-memoir-with-ly-tran/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Club: All's Well: A Novel by Mona Awad
DESCRIPTION:Join us\, on facebook live\, December 2nd (Thursday)\, from 5 to 6 pm PST for a free virtual book club with Mona Awad\nA Facebook Live Event. Click here \n\nMiranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating\, chronic back pain\, a failed marriage\, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she’s on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well\, the play that promised\, and cost\, her everything\, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers. \nThat’s when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda’s past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on\, her rebellious students get what’s coming to them\, and the invisible\, doubted pain that’s kept her from the spotlight is made known. \nWith prose Margaret Atwood has described as “no punches pulled\, no hilarities dodged…genius\,” Mona Awad has concocted her most potent\, subversive novel yet. All’s Well is the story of a woman at her breaking point and a formidable\, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain.\n\n\n\nBuy your copy of All’s Well from our sponsor\, Warwick’s\, by clicking here.\n\nPraise for:\nFrom the author of Bunny\, which Margaret Atwood hails as “genius\,” comes a dazzling and darkly funny novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging Shakespeare’s most maligned play will remedy all that ails her—but at what cost? \nA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF SUMMER 2021 SELECTED BY * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * VULTURE * LITHUB * REFINERY29 * GOODREADS * POPSUGAR * NOW MAGAZINE * BOSTON * AND MORE \n“[A] sparkling valentine to the Bard. A dream of a novel\, perfect for a midsummer night’s read.”—OPRAH DAILY\n“A dazzling wild ride of a novel—daring\, fresh\, entertaining\, and magical.” —GEORGE SAUNDERS\n“Wild and exhilarating and so fresh it takes your breath away.” —LAUREN GROFF\n“Oh my lord what a fabulous novel—knocked me out!”—MARY KARR\n\nAbout Mona:\nMona Awad is the author of Bunny\, named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME\, Vogue\, and the New York Public Library. It was a finalist for the New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award. It is currently in development for film with Jenni Konner and New Regency Productions. Awad’s first novel\, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl\, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and winner of the Colorado Book Award and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, Vogue\, TIME\, McSweeney’s\, Ploughshares\, and elsewhere. She teaches fiction in the Creative Writing program at Syracuse University. Her new novel\, All’s Well\, has been named a best or most anticipated book of summer by Entertainment Weekly\, O Magazine\, Goodreads\, and many more.\n\n \nMona’s Social Media:\n\n\n\n\n\nFollow Mona Awad on Instagram: www.instagram.com/misss_read/\nWebsite: monaawadauthor.com\nFollow Mona Awad on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/author/show/7104825.Mona_Awad
URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/virtual-book-club-alls-well-a-novel-by-mona-awad/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Club: The Necklace\, A Novel by Matt Witten
DESCRIPTION:Join us\, on facebook live\, October 5th (Tuesday)\, from 5 to 6 pm PST for a free virtual book club with Matt Witten\nA Facebook Live Event. Click here to join. \n\n\nPlease RSVP to the event here. \n\n\nThe clock ticks down in a heart-pounding crusade for justice.\nSusan Lentigo’s daughter was murdered twenty years ago—and now\, at long last\, this small-town waitress sets out on a road trip all the way from Upstate New York to North Dakota to witness the killer’s execution. \nOn her journey she discovers shocking new evidence that leads her to suspect the condemned man is innocent—and the real killer is still free. Even worse\, her prime suspect has a young daughter who’s at terrible risk. With no money and no time to spare\, Susan sets out to uncover the truth before an innocent man gets executed and another little girl is killed. \nBut the FBI refuses to reopen the case. They—and Susan’s own mother—believe she’s just having an emotional breakdown. Reaching deep\, Susan finds an inner strength she never knew she had. With the help of two unlikely allies—a cynical\, defiant teenage girl and the retired cop who made the original arrest—Susan battles the FBI to put the real killer behind bars. Will she win justice for the condemned man—and her daughter—at last? \nPerfect for fans of Karin Slaughter and Harlan Coben \nThe Necklace has been optioned for film by Appian Way and Cartel Pictures\, with Leonardo DiCaprio attached as producer. \n\n\n\n\n\n \npraise for…\n\n“[The Necklace] is as fast and tense as a great thriller should be\, but it’s full of warmth and humanity too—one small-town woman’s quest for the most poignant kind of justice you could imagine. Buy it today and read it tonight!” —Lee Child\, New York Times best-selling author \n “Thelma and Louise meets The Green Mile in this unique and powerful thriller following one mother’s cross-country journey to find the truth.” —Lisa Gardner\, New York Times best-selling author \n “The Necklace‘s brave\, truly unforgettable heroine grabbed my heart . . . This compelling\, powerful read will stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page.” —Lee Goldberg\, #1 New York Times best-selling author \n “The Necklace is an addictively readable story of a mother’s quest for justice. Surprising\, propulsive\, and poignant. I inhaled this novel.” —Meg Gardiner\, Edgar Award-winning author \n “A high stakes drama that introduces us to a heroine with an honorable streak that runs bone deep. The subject matter is gut-wrenching and thought provoking\, the entire tale laced with a haunting eeriness. Matt Witten is a pro\, and this gem of a thriller is proof positive of that.” —Steve Berry\, New York Times best-selling author \n  \n\nAbout Matt:\nMatt Witten is a TV writer\, novelist\, playwright and screenwriter who has written for many TV shows including House\, Pretty Little Liars\, Law & Order\, CSI: Miami\, Medium\, JAG\, The Glades\, Homicide\, Judging Amy\, and Women’s Murder Club. His latest thriller\, The Necklace\, will come out from Oceanview Publishing this September. It’s been optioned for film by Appian Way and Cartel Pictures\, with Leonardo DiCaprio attached as producer. Matt has also written four mystery novels set in upstate New York that were published by Signet: Breakfast at Madeline’s\, Grand Delusion\, Strange Bedfellows\, and The Killing Bee. He wrote the movie Drones. He has been nominated for two Edgars and an Emmy\, and his debut novel won the Malice Domestic Award.\n\n\nMatt’s Website: mattwittenwriter.com \n\nMatt’s Social Media:\n\nGoodreads: www.goodreads.com/author/show/206833.Matt_Witten\nTwitter: @mattzwitten\nInstagram: MattWitten22\nFacebook: Matt Witten \n\n\nMatt’s Publisher Social Media\n\nPublisher: Oceanview Publishing.\nTwitter: @oceanviewpub\nInstagram: oceanviewpub\nFacebook: Oceanview Publishing
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SUMMARY:BOOK CLUB: The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano\, A Novel by Donna Freitas
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the SDWF’s June Book Club!\nA Facebook Live Event. Click here to join. \n\nFeatured Book: The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano \nRose Napolitano is fighting with her husband\, Luke\, about prenatal vitamins. She promised she’d take them\, but didn’t. He promised before they got married that he’d never want children\, but now he’s changed his mind. Their marriage has come to rest on this one question: Can Rose find it in herself to become a mother? Rose is a successful professor and academic. She’s never wanted to have a child. The fight ends\, and with it their marriage. \nBut then\, Rose has a fight with Luke about the vitamins–again. This time the fight goes slightly differently\, and so does Rose’s future as she grapples with whether she can indeed give up the one thing she thought she knew about herself. Can she reimagine her life in a completely new way? That reimagining plays out again and again in each of Rose’s nine lives\, just as it does for each of us as we grow into adulthood. What are the consequences of our biggest choices? How would life change if we let go of our preconceived ideas of ourselves and became someone completely new? Rose Napolitano’s experience of choosing and then choosing again shows us in an utterly compelling way what it means\, literally\, to reinvent a life and\, sometimes\, become a different kind of woman than we ever imagined. \nA stunning novel about love\, loss\, betrayal\, divorce\, death\, a woman’s career and her identity\, The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano is about finding one’s way into a future that wasn’t the future one planned\, and the ways that fate intercedes when we least expect it. \n\n\n  \nAbout the Author: \nThis is Donna Freitas’s first adult novel. She is the author of Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention\, as well as books for young adults. Donna has written for The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, and The Wall Street Journal\, and has appeared on NPR and the TODAY show. She’s on the faculty at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s MFA program and lives in Brooklyn and Connecticut. \nPraise for The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano: \n“Freitas’s prose is engaging and precise\, and her what-if format proves ideal for elegantly unpacking the tensions of the plot. She balances tightly written scenes of confrontation with Rose’s poignant reflections on how much she can compromise without losing herself completely. This isn’t one to miss. “—Publishers Weekly (starred) \n“Reminiscent of Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life or the movie Sliding Doors\, Freitas’ novel explores nine (but certainly not all) possible outcomes when a woman who has never wanted children marries a man who gradually decides he does….Following the maze of numbered takes becomes an addictive game\, highly literate escapism\, like watching The Queen’s Gambit….Highly readable and provocative.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred) \n“Fans of Kate Atkinson’s Life after Life\, Liane Moriarty’s What Alice Forgot\, and the film Sliding Doors will find themselves happily lost in this charming\, heartfelt\, thought-provoking novel.”—Booklist (starred) \n“A serious yet fantastical look at relationships\, family\, and feminism told in a unique voice\, and book groups should take note. The closest readalikes are Life After Life by Kate Atkinson and Replay by Ken Grimwood.”—Library Journal (starred)
URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/book-club-the-nine-lives-of-rose-napolitano-a-novel-by-donna-freitas/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Interactive discussion and Q and A session with author\, Liese O’Halloran Schwarz
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an interactive discussion and Q and A session with author\, Liese O’Halloran Schwarz. \n“This brilliant portrayal of the lives of expats and their servants is also a suspenseful mystery with ever-darkening twists. For fans of A Little Life and The Goldfinch.” —People\, Book of the Week \nWashington\, DC\, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister Bea as their elegant\, formidable mother slowly slides into dementia. When a stranger contacts Laura claiming to be her brother who disappeared forty years earlier when the family lived in Bangkok\, Laura ignores Bea’s warnings of a scam and flies to Thailand to see if it can be true. But meeting him in person leads to more questions than answers. \nBangkok\, 1972: Genevieve and Robert Preston live in a beautiful house behind a high wall\, raising their three children with the help of a cadre of servants. In these exotic surroundings\, Genevieve strives to create a semblance of the life they would have had at home in the US—ballet and riding classes for the children\, impeccable dinner parties\, a meticulously kept home. But in truth\, Robert works for American intelligence\, Genevieve finds herself drawn into a passionate affair with her husband’s boss\, and their serene household is vulnerable to unseen dangers in a rapidly changing world and a country they don’t really understand. \nAlternating between past and present as all of the secrets are revealed\, What Could Be Saved is an unforgettable novel about a family shattered by loss and betrayal\, and the beauty that can exist even in the midst of brokenness.
URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/interactive-discussion-and-q-and-a-session-with-author-liese-ohalloran-schwarz/
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CATEGORIES:Book Club
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