Tara Conklin with Garth Stein

Seen here last month in support of the anthology Wanting, local author Tara Conklin returns to the store for her latest novel, Community Board. It tells the story of a newly divorced woman returning to her parents' house and finding connection in an unlikely place. Local novelist and Seattle7Writers co-founder Garth Stein will join Tara in coversation. In Community Board, prodigal daughter Darcy Clipper, nearly thirty, has returned home to Murbridge, Massachusetts, after her life takes an unwelcome left turn. Murbridge, Darcy is convinced, will welcome her home and provide a safe space in which she can nurse her wounds and harbor grudges, both real and imagined. But Murbridge, like so much else Darcy thought to be fixed and immutable, has changed. And while Darcy’s first instinct might be to hole herself up in her childhood bedroom, subsisting on Chef Boy-R-Dee and canned chickpeas, it is human nature to do two things: seek out meaningful human connection and respond to anonymous internet postings. As Murbridge begins to take shape around Darcy, both online and in person, Darcy will consider the most fundamental of American questions: What can she ask of her community? And what does she owe it in return? Tara Conklin was born on St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands and raised in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Last Romantics and The House Girl. Garth Stein is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel, The Art of Racing in the Rain. His other novels include Raven Stole the Moon, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets, and A Sudden Light. The first book of his graphic novel series, The Cloven, illustrated by Matthew Southworth, was published by Fantagraphics in 2020, with The Cloven Book Two launching in summer 2023. Garth was the co-founder of Seattle7Writers, a non-profit collective of more than 80 Northwest authors; he has served on the board of Hugo House, a literary center in Seattle; and he is currently the chair of the Author Leadership Circle for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation (BINCFoundation.org).

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