HBPL Literacy Volunteers Presents: Susan Straight 

Join us for a virtual reading and Q&A with best-selling author and columnist, Susan Straight. Saturday, September 18th at 5pm PST on Zoom. Susan will be reading an excerpt from her book, In the Country of Women, as well as answering questions from the audience.

Free to attend! Donations to Literacy Volunteers are greatly appreciated.

Zoom link will be provided with registration.

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About the author:

"Susan Straight was born in Riverside, and still lives there with her family. She’s passionate about home, California, the Santa Ana River, the foothills and the deserts, and has been writing about southern California and the inland area for forty years. From her kitchen window, she can see the hospital where she was born, which her three daughters find kind of hilarious and pathetic; most days, she walks her dog Angel beside the Santa Ana River as she has since childhood, and then past the classrooms at Riverside City College, where she wrote her first short story, at 16, which is also kind of hilarious, but hopeful. Susan has written about the people of California for her new memoir, In the Country of Women, based on women’s stories told for five generations to Straight and her daughters, in driveways and trucks, at parks and funerals. She’s published that memoir, eight novels, and two books for children. Her short stories and essays have been published everywhere from The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian to Alta, The Believer, McSweeneys, Zoetrope, Reader’s Digest, Real Simple, and Family Circle. She’s been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lannan Prize for Fiction, a California Gold Medal for Fiction, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes."

Questions for the author can be sent prior to the event to: literacy@surfcity-hb.org

We are partnering with Lido's Village Books in Newport Beach where Susan's book, In the Country of Women will be available prior and post event.

Click here to purchase Susan Straight's book In the Country of Women!

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