Author Susan Beckham Zurenda visits CCPL for the first time to discuss her new release THE GIRL FROM THE RED ROSE MOTEL. Registration is required for this free author event.
After teaching literature, composition, and creative writing to thousands of high school and college students for 33 years, Susan Beckham Zurenda penned her first novel Bells for Eli. It was selected the Gold Medal (first place) winner for Best First Book—Fiction in the 2021 IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Awards), a Foreword Indie Book Award finalist, a Winter 2020 Okra Pick by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, a 2020 Notable Indie on Shelf Unbound, a 2020 finalist for American Book Fest Best Book Awards, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for 2021.
Susan's latest novel, The Girl from the Red Rose Motel, is an unflinching, authentic look at the challenges faced by America's public school teachers and the struggles of the thousands of homeless children in motels who live, precariously and almost invisibly, amid the nation's most affluent communities.
Book sales and signing will follow the presentation. Light refreshments will be served. Registration is required for this event.