Thursday February 18 at 6pm
AUTHORS' NIGHT ON ZOOM
FOUR SHORT TALKS. ONE GREAT EVENING.
Each of our authors will give a 10-minute presentation,
followed by Q&A for the whole panel.
FEATURED AUTHORS:
Maureen Eppstein | Horizon Line
David Herstle Jones | Behind the Locked Door
C.C. Mitchell | Saving the Radiance
Valerie Miner | Bread and Salt
In the 1970s, Eric Martin, a young attorney, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Eric finds hospitals and traditional treatments insensitive and ineffective, so he decides to gamble on an unproven but popular alternative: Laetrile, legally available to him only at a clinic in Mexico. While there, he befriends an unconventional Catholic priest who
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Compelling and vivid, the stories in Bread and Salt use the metaphor of salvage to consider the reclamation of the natural environment, human relationships, and material objects. The characters in these stories live and travel in Tunisia, India, Indonesia, Italy, Turkey, France, and the United States and consider their individual agency in both local and global contexts.