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SUMMARY:Celebrate the Launch of YOU COULD BE HAPPY HERE with Author Erin Van Rheenen at Books Inc. in San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Join Erin Van Rheenen in celebrating the launch of her debut novel, You Could Be Happy Here. The book is a story of identity, belonging, and of opening your heart to a deeper understanding of kinship and home. Karen Joy Fowler wrote that the novel “take you someplace wonderful.”Refreshments will be available at the event, and Erin will be signing the book following her talk!\nBooks will be available to purchase at the event.\nFor more information, please visit Books Inc.’s events page here.\nAbout You Could Be Happy Here:\nLucy—single, childless, in her thirties—studies insects and ecosystems, in part to make sense of human behavior. ​\nThat hard-won insight is shattered when her mother dies prematurely, her sister claims the California family home, and Lucy learns that her biological father is apparently a Costa Rican they knew when the family spent summers in the coastal village of Palmita. ​\nReeling, Lucy heads south in search of this phantom father.​ But he is nowhere to be found, and none of the locals seem to remember her. ​The dreamy, off-grid paradise she recalls from childhood has become a hard-edged town leery of outsiders. ​\nYou Could be Happy Here is a story of identity, belonging, and of opening your heart to a deeper understanding of kinship and home. ​\nAbout Erin Van Rheenen:\nAfter earning a BA from UC Santa Cruz and a Masters from City University of New York, Erin Van Rheenen left the US to see the world. She ended up in Costa Rica, where she lived for several years, soaking up the green and researching her relocation guide, Living Abroad in Costa Rica and her children’s book, The Manatee’s Big Day.​ Her work has been anthologized and published in Bellevue Literary Review, Atlas Obscura, BBC Travel, Fiction, The Sun, and Best Women’s Travel Writing. ​For ten years, she was Senior Writer at The Exploratorium, a science museum. ​Erin lives in San Francisco.\n
URL:https://sibyllinepress.com/events/celebrate-the-launch-of-you-could-be-happy-here-with-author-erin-van-rheenen-at-books-inc-in-san-francisco/
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LOCATION:Books Inc, California Street, Laurel Heights, San Francisco, CA
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