Author event! Lynn Stegner x Gale Holland

Zibby's Bookshop is so excited to welcome Lynn Stegner to celebrate the launch of THE HALF-LIFE GUILT! Lynn will be joined by journalist Gale Holland.

About the book:

Lynn Stegner's acclaimed novels and story collections have drawn comparisons to the works of Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Munro, and John Updike. Now in her new novel, The Half-Life of Guilt, Stegner tells the story of Clair Bugato and Mason Comstock. Together they journey to the world's largest saltworks in Baja California, where a proposed expansion threatens the California gray whale population, recently come back from the brink of extinction.

In the midst of a conservation battle, they meet a mysterious son of Mexico, Rubio Cantú, who leads them to the powers that be. Their two-week journey sends Clair deep into the past, where she reviews the divergent paths she and her near-identical twin sister have taken away from a childhood tragedy. At the same time, Mason confronts his own unhappy past in Cornwall, England, with a father whose hate was stronger than his love.

No other work of fiction patterns the warp and weft of human guilt, the homesickness only love can cure, environmental crises, the intrinsic conflict between international commerce and planetary health, and the necessity of forgiveness. The Half-Life of Guilt is woven from these themes, delivering to the reader an engrossing and transformative literary experience.

About the speakers:

Lynn Stegner's books include the novels Undertow, Fata Morgana, and Because a Fire Was in My Head, which won the Faulkner Award for Best Novel and was a New York Times Editors' Choice. Her novella triptych, Pipers at the Gates of Dawn, was awarded a Faulkner Society's Gold Medal. She divides her time between San Francisco and northern Vermont.

Gale Holland has worked for decades in Los Angeles as a journalist, most recently for the Los Angeles Times, where she served as the legal affairs editor, news columnist and investigative reporter. A series she co-wrote on waste, abuse and corruption in a $1.2 billion college construction program won a national investigative award and her work on a multimedia project about the struggles of a pregnant homeless woman in Hollywood and the government programs that failed her won a national feature writing prize. A feature documentary she co-produced as part of the homeless project

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