Don Lesser in Person

Join us on Thursday, June 11 at 7 PM as Don Lesser talks about his new novel, Crystal Springs.

Steven Bennett is a historian, chef, and programmer in the quaint rural towns of the Pioneer Valley. Rejected by his first love, he marries another woman and lives an ordinary life hosting barbecues and tip-toeing around a past extramarital affair. After raising a family, a sudden suspected overdose of a young woman in town upends Steven's life. He embarks on a quest to discover what really happened only to unearth buried scars and hard truths about old friends.

Set against the backdrop of lush hills in Western Massachusetts, Crystal Springs is literary fiction about the love of place, the bonds between found families, and the lasting love between friends.

Don Lesser has an MFA in Fiction from UMass Amherst. He was a professional non-fiction writer for a long time, writing business and technical materials. Don also wrote food journalism for a number of years and has awards from the Greenbrier Symposium for Professional Food Writers for his work.

Currently, he lives in Amherst, Massachusetts and writes fiction. Crystal Springs is his first published novel.

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