Four Sibyls Bring Their Novels to Broadway Books in Portland, OR
Join Polly Dugan, Erin Van Rheenen, Suzanne Uttaro Samuels and Temple Lentz at Broadway Books on November 6th at 6 pm. They will read from, discuss and sign their books published by Sibylline Press: The House of Cavanaugh, You Could Be Happy Here, Seeds of the Pomegranate and Not Quite Home.
Books will be available to purchase at the event.
For more information, please visit Broadway Books’ event page here.
About The House of Cavanaugh:
In 1964, Joan Cavanaugh has a secret affair that leads to the birth of a daughter whose true paternity she takes to her grave.
Fifty years later, when 23andMe unearths the buried truth, the foundations of two tightly connected families are deeply shaken.
The House of Cavanaugh is a gripping story of hidden pasts, unraveling loyalties, and what it really means to be family.
About Polly Dugan:
Polly Dugan is the author of the linked story collection, So Much a Part of You, and the novel, The Sweetheart Deal. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The Dickinson Review, Narrative, Line Zero, ModernLoss.com and Huffpost.com. She is a contributing author to Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer’s Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book by Courtney Maum. She is a graduate of Dickinson College, a former employee of Powell’s Books and Guide Dogs for the Blind, a Tin House Summer Workshop alumna and a former submissions reader for Tin House magazine. She lives in Portland and Manzanita, Oregon with her family.
About You Could Be Happy Here:
When Lucy loses her mother and discovers her real father may be a man from her childhood summers in Costa Rica, she sets out to find him—and herself. But the town she returns to is no longer the paradise she remembers, and her search raises more questions than it answers. You Could Be Happy Here is a story of identity, belonging, and of opening your heart to a deeper understanding of kinship and home.
About Erin Van Rheenen:
Erin Van Rheenen 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. After earning a BA from UC Santa Cruz and a Masters from City University of New York, she 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. For ten years she was Senior Writer at The Exploratorium, a science museum. Erin now lives in San Francisco.
About Seeds of the Pomegranate:
After illness derails her dreams of becoming a painter in Sicily, Mimi Inglese immigrates to New York, only to be dragged into her father’s criminal underworld. When he’s imprisoned, she turns to counterfeiting to survive, using her artistic gift to forge a path through Gangland chaos. As violence closes in, Mimi must risk everything to escape a life built on desperation and reclaim the future she once imagined.
About Suzanne Uttaro Samuels:
Suzanne Uttaro Samuels’ award-winning stories and essays have appeared in anthologies and print and online literary magazines. Seeds of the Pomegranate is her debut novel. Suzanne was a finalist in the Women Fiction Writers Association’s Rising Star contest and the Historical Novel Society’s First Pages competition. Her work won notable recognition in the Thomas Wolfe Prize for Fiction. The prequel to Seeds, The Orphans’ Wheel, set during the tumultuous 19th-century Italian Wars of Independence, is forthcoming from Sibylline Press. A lifelong resident of New York City, Suzanne now resides in the Adirondack Mountains.
About Not Quite Home:
The wealthy and recently widowed Claire, teams up with Erica, a young outreach worker for the homeless to craft a plan to help ten unhoused women get off the streets and build a community of their own. Despite the difficult neighbors and politicians, it seems like they’re going to pull it off… until a shadow from one woman’s past jeopardizes the entire project.
About Temple Lentz:
Temple Lentz is a nonprofit CEO and former local elected official. She has lived mostly in central Ohio, Chicago, and Vancouver, Washington. This is her first book.
