Thu, Nov 14
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Lynn Stegner, The Half-Life of Guilt
Lynn will be in conversation with author JoAnn Mapson. Lynn Stegner's fiction has drawn comparisons to the works of Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver, and Alice Munro.
Date, Time & Location
Nov 14, 2024, 6:00 PM MST
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, please register for Zoom here.
Order The Half Life of Guilt (hardcover, $27.95) online here, Â or call the store to order (505) 988-4226. Signed copies will be available after the event.
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 Cant , 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…