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Davidson
Lâle Davidson
A New York State Chancellor Award winner for Creative Activity and a distinguished professor of creative writing and public speaking, Lâle Davidson has published an award-winning fabulist fiction collection called Strange Appetites and three novels with Emperor Books, an imprint of Red Penguin Books. Her novel Blue Woman Burning is a magical realist coming of age novel that starts out in Santiago Chile and ends up in L.A. The audio recording of the book is due to be released this fall. Against the Grain, an environmental novel about saving the redwoods with a mystical twist, won two National Indie Excellence Awards. Beyond Sight about a college student who must uncover her long-suppressed powers to rescue her boyfriend from a ghost of the Gilded Age, is base in Saratoga Springs where she lives. For more information and creative writing tips, visit Laledavidson.com and fb/laledavidsonauthor.
Session Info:
YA Fantasy Focus with Allyson Dahlin and Katherine Harbour, Moderated by Lâle Davidson
SSPL, Dutcher Room | Saturday, Oct 4 | 11:30 AM–12:30 PM
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About Blue Woman Burning
On the Altiplano, the high plain, between Chile and Bolivia, Fallon's family witnesses their mother magically disappear. The inexplicable nature of their loss marks each family member in a different way. For Fallon it is the first step toward adulthood. For her brilliant and troubled older brother, it is an abandonment from which he never recovers. Thirteen years later, back in the United States, Fallon is about to conquer self-doubt and apply to medical school, when another mysterious event shatters her reality. The crisis catapults her across the country on a quest to find the truth. What she discovers changes everything.
Blurring boundaries between make-believe and fact, Blue Woman Burning, asks what is real, what is invented? How can we move forward if what passes for reality is only a matter of perception? This is a novel for our time, as the conflict between what we choose to believe and what is true plays out in modern American life.