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A conversation with Paula McLain & Kristin Hannah

Join us on Zoom for a conversation with author Paula McLain and Kristin Hannah, discussing McLain's new novel, When the Stars Go Dark.

This event will be broadcast live on Zoom. Registration and an email address are required to receive the link to participate. 

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About the author:

Paula McLain is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Love and Ruin, Circling the Sun, The Paris Wife, and A Ticket to Ride, the memoir Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses, and two collections of poetry. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, O: The Oprah Magazine, Town & Country, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere. 

Her latest novel, When the Stars Go Dark, is an atmospheric novel of intertwined destinies and heart-wrenching suspense. Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco, but when tragedy strikes her personal life, she flees to Mendocino, California where she lived as a child with her beloved foster parents. Yet the day she arrives, she learns that a local teenage girl has gone missing.

The crime feels frighteningly reminiscent of the most crucial time in Anna’s childhood, when the unsolved murder of a young girl changed the Mendocino community forever. As past and present collide, Anna realizes that she has been led to this moment. As she becomes obsessed with saving the missing girl, she must accept that true courage means getting out of her own way and learning to let others in.

Paula McLain will be joined in conversation by Kristin Hannah.

Kristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale, Winter Garden, Night Road, and Firefly Lane.

Her novel, The Nightingale, has been published in 43 languages and is currently in movie production at TriStar Pictures, which also optioned her novel, The Great Alone. Her novel, Home Front has been optioned for film by 1492 Films (produced the Oscar-nominated The Help) with Chris Columbus attached to direct.

Kristin is a former-lawyer-turned writer who lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband. Her novel, Firefly Lane, became a runaway bestseller in 2009, a touchstone novel that brought women together, and The Nightingale, in 2015 was voted a best book of the year by Amazon, Buzzfeed, iTunes, Library Journal, Paste, The Wall Street Journal and The Week.  Additionally, the novel won the coveted Goodreads and People’s Choice Awards. The audiobook of The Nightingale won the Audiobook of the Year Award in the fiction category.