Celebrate the LAUNCH of The Sunken Town with Author Karen Nelson!

“Karen Nelson’s The Sunken Town is both a spell-binding thriller and a profound meditation on the role of nature and nurture in human destiny. Bravo!”
—Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and the North Bath Trilogy

Join author Karen Nelson and Writing by Writers to welcome her new novel The Sunken Town into the world! Meet the author, get your signed copy, and enjoy refreshments with fellow book lovers at the Sequoia room at the Los Altos Community Center on December 15th from 4-5:30pm. 

For more info, and to register for the event (free to the public!), please reserve a spot here: REGISTRATION

EVENT INFORMATION
December 15th, 4-5:30pm
Sequoia Room
Los Altos Community Center
97 Hillview Avenue
Los Altos, CA  94022

Copies will be sold at the event, or can be purchased here.

About The Sunken Town:

If you admit on truth, what else will you have to acknowledge?

Lindsay, a thirty-year-old California native, never gave much thought to being adopted. When she unexpectedly inherits her birth mother Claire’s farmhouse in Maine, she is plunged into a journey across the country and across the years into a lake of secrets that will ultimately reveal just how far everyone was willing to go to protect her. Told from both Lindsay’s and Claire’s points of view, The Sunken Town explores adoption, identity, the nature of family dynamics, mother-daughter relationships, the impact of family secrets, the weight of motherhood and the lasting consequences of the choices people make.

About Karen Nelson:

Karen Nelson is a writer and the co-founder of the nonprofit Writing by Writers. During her long career in nonprofits, she has protected open space, funded cancer research, trained people to complete endurance events, and helped writers bring their work into the world. When not organizing writing workshops, she can be found hiking with her dog, reading traveling, experimenting in the kitchen, and hosting dinner parties.