Elizabeth Clark-Stern presents 'The House in the Ebony Tree'

Third Place Books welcomes local author Elizabeth Clark-Stern to our Lake Forest Park store for a conversation about her new novel, The House in the Ebony Tree, which follows a lifelong friendship through the turbulent twentieth century and beyond.

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Two little girls meet in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1955. Dorothy (“Dot Dot”) is African American, Grace Ellen (“Winkie”) is white. Their love of imaginative play and ballet grounds their friendship in something far beyond the prejudice of race and class. One of their fathers builds them a house in the ebony tree in Winkie’s backyard. It becomes a sanctuary for their dreams and ideas, far away from the eyes of a judging world.
As they grow up, they live in different cities, but faithfully keep in touch, and share the greatest joys and deepest tragedies of their lives. The decades move on, through the Civil Rights Era, Feminism, and the enactment of Roe v. Wade. Dot Dot and Winkie once sang, “We Shall Overcome.” Now, as Winkie moves back to Tupelo after 60 years, can they overcome the forces that threaten to destroy their life-long love?

Elizabeth Clark-Stern is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and psychotherapist. In Hollywood, she wrote television scripts that were produced on PBS, CBS, ABC, NBC. Her plays have been performed in Seattle, Cape Town, Copenhagen, and New Orleans. Her novels include The Language of Water, published in 2023. For the past 30 years she has had a private practice as a Jungian psychotherapist, and presented workshops in Vancouver, Canada, and Seattle.

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