Author Lynn Stegner, a resident of Greensboro and San Francisco and the daughter-in-law of Wallace Stegner, will read from her new novel The Half-Life of Guilt in a program hosted by the Greensboro Free Library with book sales by Galaxy Bookshop. The reading will be held in Fellowship Hall of the Greensboro United Church of Christ at 5:00pm on Wednesday, August 14. Stegner is the author of six novels, and her work has been compared to the writing of Barbara Kingsolver, Margaret Atwood, and Alice Munro. Her new novel tells the story of a biologist and photojournalist who journey to a remote area of Baja California, Mexico, where a proposed saltworks expansion proposes a threat to California grey whales recently returned from the edge of extinction. The journey exposes their histories, feelings of guilt over a past trauma, and love and forgiveness. This event marks Stegner's first public reading from the novel, and she will sign copies after the presentation.
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