Erin Van Rheenen in Conversation with Barbara Lane at Sausalito Books by the Bay
Erin Van Rheenen will appear at Sausalito Books by the Bay on September 25th at 6pm. She will be in conversation with Barbara Lane, discussing all things on Van Rheenen’s new novel You Could Be Happy Here. There will be refreshments and giveaways, and Erin will be available to sign books after the event!
Books will be available to purchase at the event.
For more information, please visit Sausalito Books by the Bay’s event page here.
EVENT ADDRESS:
100 Bay Street
Sausalito, CA
94965
About You Could Be Happy Here:
How far would you go to find your true home?
Lucy—single, childless, in her thirties—studies insects and ecosystems, in part to make sense of human behavior. That 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.
Reeling, 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. Is Lucy an interloper, too? Or can she find a way to belong—rethink her place in the world and expand her notion of kinship and home?
About Erin Van Rheenen:
Erin Van Rheenen, MA, writes fiction and nonfiction that explores family dynamics, cultural difference, and the power of place. Her work has been anthologized and published in Bellevue Literary Review, Atlas Obscura, BBC Travel, Fiction, The Sun, and Best Women’s Travel Writing. She won the Pirates Alley Faulkner Society prize for best novel in manuscript, judged by novelist Oscar Hijuelos. Her work has been supported by Cottages at Hedgebrook, Community of Writers, and Hippocamp.
You Could Be Happy Here is inspired by Erin’s connection to Latin America. Born in Oregon, schooled in Santa Cruz and New York City, her passion for place really took hold in the Southern reaches of the Americas. She learned Spanish as a child in Guatemala, lived for years as an adult in Ecuador and Mexico, and was married to a Mexico City artist. After they divorced, she moved to Costa Rica, where she lived and traveled by herself while researching her best-selling relocation guide, Living Abroad in Costa Rica (Avalon Travel Publishing). She has contributed to many travel and live-abroad guides, and has been interviewed on radio and television as an expert on Costa Rica and relocating abroad.
