Sausalito Books by the Bay hosts Lynn Stegner in conversation with Molly Giles about Stegner’s new novel, The Half-Life of Guilt, on October 16 at 6 pm.
Lynn Stegner’s acclaimed novels and story collections have drawn comparisons to the works of Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Munro, and John Updike. Now in her new novel, The Half-Life of Guilt, Stegner tells the story of Clair Bugato and Mason Comstock. Together they journey to the world’s largest saltworks in Baja California, where a proposed expansion threatens the California gray whale population, recently come back from the brink of extinction.
Molly Giles published her first novel, Iron Shoes, in 2000, and, in 2023, published its sequel, The Home for Unwed Husbands. The award-winning author taught Creative Writing for seventeen years at San Francisco State University and later taught for fourteen years at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
Sausalito Books by the Bay is an independent bookstore, designed to be a community center as well as a place to browse and buy books…a haven of learning and exchange…a place to share a cup of coffee and chat with a knowledgeable bookseller. The bookshop specially curates books for Sausalito, including a nautical & maritime section, as well as a focus on wildlife and environment.