The latest tomes from local authors.
The Gilded Years
by Karin Tanabe
Atria Books
Ex-Politico writer Karin Tanabe takes readers back to the late 1800s in the Northeast, where college campuses are a playground for young women looking to escape from their parents’ homes and forge lives of their own. But Anita Hemmings has a secret that she must keep to continue this life: She is a black woman attending a college as a white woman. In her three years at Vassar, she has moved under the radar. But her senior year brings a new roommate, romantic intrigue and the possibility of being found out. (June 2016)
Bystanders Stories
by Tara Laskowski
Santa Fe Writers Project
Tara Laskowski, author of Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons, moves into a genre of short story fiction with a focus on violence and tragedy. Thirteen stories make up her latest work, Bystanders Stories, and each one follows the theme of a protagonist with a gripping, consuming nature and some terrifying act they are involved with whether personally or voyeuristically. Lessons learned along the way have us taking another look at our imperfect lives. (May 2016)
