Temple Lentz Brings Not Quite Home to White Oak Books in Vancouver, WA
Join Temple Lentz at White Oak Books for a talk and signing of her novel Not Quite Home. Community leader Jim Mains will facilitate a talk with Temple and then she will be joined by Michael Lynch and Jamie Spinelli to discuss homelessness and philanthropy.
Books will be available to purchase at the event.
For more information, please visit White Oak Books’ events page here.
About Not Quite Home:
When compassion meets conviction, community is born.
Claire, wealthy and recently widowed, is adrift. She has access to tools to make a real difference but can’t figure out where to apply them. Erica, a young outreach worker to the homeless, has grown so cynical about the broken system that she’s breaking rules herself—and for that, she’s about to get fired. One day, Erica finds Claire giving away gourmet sandwiches and twenty-dollar bills at a homeless encampment, and yanks her out of there with a lecture about systemic problems and feel-good solutions. Their conflict soon becomes a partnership, and they craft a plan to help ten unhoused women get off the streets and build a community of their own. Together, they navigate nasty neighbors and difficult politicians. And just when it seems like they’re going to pull it off, a shadow from one woman’s past jeopardizes the entire project.
About Temple Lentz:
Temple Lentz is a nonprofit CEO and former elected official. She has lived mostly in central Ohio, Chicago, and Vancouver, Washington. This is her first book.
