Celebrate the Launch of WHOA, NELLY! with Julia Park Tracey at Copperfield’s Petaluma
Join Julia Park Tracey, author of Whoa, Nelly! A Love Story (*With Footnotes) at the Petaluma Copperfield’s on November 21st at 7pm to celebrate the release of her new novel.
Books will be available to purchase at the event.
Admission is free, but RSVP’ing is requested! RSVP here.
About Whoa, Nelly! A Love Story (*with Footnotes):
She went looking for Laura. She found herself.
Lonely librarian Nelly sets out to walk in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s footsteps—only to find that the prairie isn’t as romantic as she imagined. As she confronts the darker legacies of the Little House series—racism, revisionist nostalgia, and the shadowy influence of Rose Wilder Lane—Nelly must reckon with her own buried truths.
Along the way, there’s a clever, slow-burn romance with a modern-day Almanzo, a rivalry with a would-be Laura, and a blizzard that will test everything Nelly thought she knew about courage and care. By the time she boards the train home, Nelly has rescued more than just a child in danger—she’s reclaimed her own story.
Whoa, Nelly! A Love Story (with Footnotes) is a sharp, soulful heroine’s journey for the literary misfits, the daughters of difficult mothers, and anyone who ever found solace in a well-worn paperback.
About Julia Park Tracey:
Julia Park Tracey is an award-winning journalist and author of nine books, with an emphasis on women’s history and her female ancestors’ stories. Inspired by a mysterious train receipt in her family’s scrapbook, she researched her Orphan Train roots and continues to write novels about her found relatives. A lifelong fan of the Little House books, Tracey put her train-traveling time when crossing the American prairie to good use when she toured for her previous novels.
