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Chaucer’s Books -Author Talk Fran Davis
Wednesday, October 15 5:30 PM
Chaucer’s Bookstore (3321 State Street) hosts local author Frances Petty Davis for a book talk and signing of the novel Red Summer.
Book Description “Love, betrayal and revenge in the McCarthy era.”
It is the summer of 1954, and the small California town of Bear River simmers with Cold War paranoia. Althea Bailey returns home with her husband Sayer and daughter Freddie only to find herself in a town on edge, where the personal tragedies and grievances of the past and the fear-stoked suspicions of the present are slowly boiling over, testing the family in ways they never could have imagined.
Rich in character and steeped in local color, Red Summer is a multigenerational story about love and family, jealousy and betrayal and, ultimately, forgiveness.
About the Author Journalist, essayist, fiction writer and poet Fran Davis is a long-time columnist for Coastal View News and former feature writer for the Santa Barbara News-Press. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, and she is a winner of the Lamar York prize for nonfiction.