Book Release Celebration for Candlelight Bridge: Reading & Talk with Author

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You are invited to celebrate the release of Cara Lopez Lee's novel, Candlelight Bridge, with a reading and conversation!

A virtual book release celebration for Candlelight Bridge, a novel by Cara Lopez Lee. This one-hour event will feature excerpted readings from the novel by the author and a Q&amp;A. This event is hosted by the publisher FlowerSong Press.<a href="https://www.flowersongpress.com/store-j9lRp/p/candlelight-bridge-a-novel-by-cara-lopez-lee-forthcoming" title="https://www.flowersongpress.com/store-j9lRp/p/candlelight-bridge-a-novel-by-cara-lopez-lee-forthcoming" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Purchase the book here!</a> About the book: In 1910, twelve-year-old Candelaria Rivera and her family flee across the Chihuahuan Desert to America to escape the rising storm of the Mexican Revolution. Meanwhile, twenty-year-old Yan Chi Wong flees the Chinese Revolution and a shattering loss, also bound for America, where he’s nicknamed Yankee. They meet in El Paso, Texas, where they struggle to make a home in a world that does not want them, until a terrible desire threatens to destroy their lives. Candlelight Bridge is not a romance but a tale of grudging partners struggling to survive the American Dream. ISBN 978-1-963245-07-3 About the author:Cara Lopez Lee is the author of the memoir, They Only Eat Their Husbands, and coauthor of the veteran-acclaimed Unexpected Prisoner. Her writing has appeared in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, Manifest-Station, and Rivet. She was an award-winning television journalist in Alaska. She’s a winner of The Moth StorySLAM and is featured in such storytelling shows as Unheard L.A. and Risk. She and her husband live in Ventura, California.

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