Book Launch for Candlelight Bridge - Cara’s L.A. Party

Celebrate Cara’s book release with free Mexican food, stories, poetry, songs by Goblynne, and a reading from Candlelight Bridge—the novel fellow authors are calling:

“A NOVEL OF TREMENDOUS HEART” – Kali Fajardo-Anstine

“SWEEPING YET INTIMATE” – Vanessa Hua

“A BOOK TO SAVOR AND REVISIT” – Luis Alberto Urrea

Cara will gift a Free Book to all partygoers!

Celebrate Cara’s desert saga by helping plant a tree in the desert.

Cara will gift all contributions to the local nonprofit, For Every Star, A Tree.

For Every Star, A Tree plants small-scale forests for global change!

A poetic reimagining of forests in the climate resilience age, For Every Star, A Tree plants Mini Forests in L.A.’s Mojave Desert. If you contribute $25, For Every Star, a Tree will plant a native tree in their sanctuary with your name!

In 1910, 12-year-old Candelaria Rivera and her family flees across the desert to America to escape the Mexican Revolution. Meanwhile, 20-year-old Yan Chi Wong flees the Chinese Revolution, also bound for America, where he’s nicknamed Yankee. Candlelight Bridge is the story of how they become unlikely partners in a struggle to survive the American Dream.

Cara Lopez Lee is the author of the memoir, They Only Eat Their Husbands. Her stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Manifest-Station, and Rivet. She’s a winner of The Moth StorySLAM and appears in many storytelling shows. Cara and her husband live in Ventura, where they tend a certified wildlife habitat full of birds, bees, and butterflies.

Host or Publisher Cara Lopez Lee