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SUMMARY:Fractured Families, at Home and Abroad: Erin Van Rheenen in Conversation with Suzy Vitello at BOLD Books & Coffee in Portland, OR
DESCRIPTION:How far would you go to find your true home? In her debut novel, travel writer Erin Van Rheenen brings us a haunting story that Karen Joy Fowler says “take you someplace wonderful.” When Lucy loses her mother and discovers her biological father may be a man from her childhood summers in Costa Rica, she sets out to find him—and herself. You Could be Happy Here is a story of identity, belonging, and of opening your heart to a deeper understanding of kinship and home. Erin will be in conversation with Suzy Vitello, author of The Bequest at BOLD Books & Coffee in Portland OR on November 7th at 7pm.\nBooks will be available to purchase at the event.\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
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LOCATION:1755 SW Jefferson St, Portland, OR
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