Zoom Author Event: We are the Brennans by Tracey Lange

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Local author and teacher Ellen Santasieo will be in conversation with Tracy Lange for this event.

In the vein of Mary Beth Keane’s Ask Again, Yes, Tracey Lange’s We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame—and the redemptive power of love—in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets.

When 29-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. But it’s not easy. She deserted them all—and her high school sweetheart—five years before with little explanation, and they've got questions. Sunday is determined to rebuild her life back on the east coast, even if it does mean tiptoeing around resentful brothers and an ex-fiancé. The longer she stays, however, the more she realizes they need her just as much as she needs them. When a dangerous man from her past brings her family’s pub business to the brink of financial ruin, the only way to protect them is to upend all of their secrets— secrets that have damaged the family for generations and will threaten everything they know about their lives. In the aftermath, the Brennan family is forced to confront painful mistakes—and ultimately find a way forward, together.

 

Born in the Bronx and raised in Manhattan, Tracey Lange comes from a large Irish family with a few secrets of its own. She headed west and graduated from the University of New Mexico before owning and operating a behavioral healthcare company with her husband for fifteen years. While writing her debut novel, We Are the Brennans, she completed the Stanford University online novel writing program. Tracey currently lives in Bend, Oregon, with her husband, two sons and their German Shepherd.

 

Ellen Santasiero’s essays, memoirs, interviews, and articles have appeared in Northwest Review, Marlboro Review, The Sun, Oregon Humanities, High Desert Journal, Oregon Home, The Stay Project, The Polk Street Review, youshare.com, and in Going Green, an anthology from the University of Oklahoma Press. Since 2006, she has taught literature and creative writing at Oregon State University-Cascades. In addition to her university teaching, she mentors writers of all kinds, teaches writing and art classes (and her famous pie crust class!) in and around central Oregon, and is a freelance copywriter.

Ellen is co-editor of Placed: An Encyclopedia of Central Oregon.

Event date: 
Tuesday, August 3, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
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$26.99
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ISBN: 9781250796226
Published: Celadon Books - August 3rd, 2021