Author Karen Guzman of Durham will discuss her second novel, “Arborview,” on Thursday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. on Zoom as part of the Tolland Public Library Foundation’s Eaton-Dimock-King Authors Series.
In “Arborview,” Guzman, a former journalist who is now a writer at the Yale School of Management, recounts the tale of two women who face hidden betrayals by the people they love most while trying to start new lives.
After a bruising divorce that has drained her bank account, along with her spirit, Ellen Cahill is staking her financial future on the success of her new pastry shop. Haunted by the past, she questions whether she can pull off a new beginning.
College student Rosa Escamilla has her own culinary dreams – and a difficult mother who is dead set against them. Undeterred, she scrapes up the money to enroll at a prestigious culinary school.
New York Times bestselling author Michelle Richmond praised “Arborview.”
“Told with Karen Guzman’s trademark compassion, “Arborview” is the book we need right now: poignant, hopeful, and full of heart,” Richmond said. “A beautiful story about the relationships that shape us and the dreams that save us.
Guzman is a fiction writer and essayist who worked as a journalist at the Hartford Courant and the News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Her debut novel, “Homing Instincts,’’ was published in 2014. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of literary magazines, and her story collection, “Pilgrims,” was a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award. She is a regular contributor to the Collegeville Institute’s “Bearings Online” magazine and is a writing fellow at the institute.
The author visit is free, but registration is required. To register, visit tolland.org/library, scroll down to the Online Events calendar, click on it and navigate to Feb. 10 for the Karen Guzman event. Those who have registered ahead of time will receive the Zoom link by email before the talk.
The Tolland Public Library Foundation was established in 1996 to receive donations to benefit the Tolland Public Library and to enhance library services beyond what the town budget provides.
Since 2010, the EDK series has brought well-known authors to Tolland, including Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Dan Barry, Steven G. Smith and Susan Campbell; Lucy Anne Hurston, Chris Knopf, Caragh O’Brien, Dawn Metcalf, Denis Horgan, Jeff Goldberg and Cindy Rodriguez.
Novelist Karen Guzman
