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CASTRO VALLEY NOVELIST AMY FRANKLIN-WILLIS BOOK EVENT FOR HER CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DEBUT NOVEL The Lost Saints of Tennessee At this free event open to the public, Amy Franklin-Willis will give a brief talk about the writing process and then read and sign The Lost Saints of Tennessee. The Hayward Book Shop will have books available for purchase at the event. “The main characters are agreeably imperfect, their stories sensitively told.” --New York Times Book Review “Leaves the reader rooting for the characters until the novel's last page." --The Boston Globe “The gifted novelist Amy Franklin-Willis has written a riveting, hardscrabble book on the rough, hardscrabble south, which has rarely been written about with such grace and compassion. It reminded me of Dorothy Allison?s classic, Bastard Out of Carolina." — Pat Conroy "Pitch-perfect . . . In her powerful debut, Franklin-Willis expertly crafts a Southern novel that stands with genre classics like The Prince of Tides and Bastard out of Carolina. . . . A measured, slow-burning book, with complex, compelling characters and secrets that reveal themselves slowly. A beautiful novel from a talented new author, The Lost Saints of Tennessee proves that in great literature, as in life, we must always expect the unexpected." —Bookpage