The Durham Read Local Festival is happening this weekend! If you're in the area, drop by Durham Library on Saturday, or Durham Central Park on Sunday.
You'll catch me sharing a booth with awesome local author Summer Kinard, who writes books with freegans and lucha libre; and faith, tea, and love.
That's right. Freeganism, friendship, a scrapbook romance, and a luchadora in Can't Buy Me Love:
Hurts from her past keep freegan Vanessa Fauchon stuck in a dead end relationship that feeds her
heart about as much as an unvarying diet of stale bagels feeds her
body. When she digs a scrapbook from the dumpster, the last thing she
expects is to fall in love with the sexy Latino man in its pages. With
the rich friendship and hands-on love of her strong and zany female
friends – a luchadora, a yarn-bombing midwife, a professor and foraging
partner, a psychic Jewish grandmother, a savvy fellow bartender, and her
deeply religious, unofficially adopted mothers – Vanessa heals from her
past and begins to build the graceful life she thought was out of her
reach. Her love story with Javier seems on course for a happy ending,
until Vanessa is publicly humiliated and loses Javier's trust. Faced
with losing Javier for good, Vanessa must decide if she's willing to
fight for what she loves.
And check out her new release, The Salvation of Jeffrey Lapin:
After 125 years of demon possession, Jeffrey Lapin wants to end his life of torment. A failed suicide attempt puts him in touch with Maddy, an Orthodox Christian police officer whose helping hand burns Jeffrey's skin. Her touch shows him the solution to his problem: he will convert to Orthodoxy and say goodbye to the world when he gets baptized. But Jeffrey's so focused on dying that he overlooks the first part of baptism: the exorcism. Parted forever from the demon that tormented him, Jeffrey has to learn to live as a Christian, free from the demon but not his own tendencies to mess up.
With compassion and coffee, confession and cake, Jeff's new Orthodox family teaches him to accept the grace given him to live into true eternal life. Strengthened by new habits of faith, Jeffrey finds a new direction, purpose, and maybe even love.
Come and by see us Sunday!
You'll catch me sharing a booth with awesome local author Summer Kinard, who writes books with freegans and lucha libre; and faith, tea, and love.
That's right. Freeganism, friendship, a scrapbook romance, and a luchadora in Can't Buy Me Love:
Hurts from her past keep freegan Vanessa Fauchon stuck in a dead end relationship that feeds her
And check out her new release, The Salvation of Jeffrey Lapin:
After 125 years of demon possession, Jeffrey Lapin wants to end his life of torment. A failed suicide attempt puts him in touch with Maddy, an Orthodox Christian police officer whose helping hand burns Jeffrey's skin. Her touch shows him the solution to his problem: he will convert to Orthodoxy and say goodbye to the world when he gets baptized. But Jeffrey's so focused on dying that he overlooks the first part of baptism: the exorcism. Parted forever from the demon that tormented him, Jeffrey has to learn to live as a Christian, free from the demon but not his own tendencies to mess up.
With compassion and coffee, confession and cake, Jeff's new Orthodox family teaches him to accept the grace given him to live into true eternal life. Strengthened by new habits of faith, Jeffrey finds a new direction, purpose, and maybe even love.
Come and by see us Sunday!
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