Join us at Hub City Bookshop on August 18th as author Ellen Urbani reads from her debut novel Landfall.
The event begins at 5:00 pm and is expected to last an hour.
The book has received acclaim from such writers as Pat Conroy, who says, “With her new novel Landfall, Ellen Urbani enters the world of American fiction with a bang and a flourish. She brings back the terrible Hurricane Katrina that tore some of the heart out of the matchless city of New Orleans, but did not lay a finger on its soul.
It is the story of people caught in that storm and the lives both ruined and glorified in its passage. Her description of the flooding of the Ninth Ward is Faulknerian in its power. It’s a hell of a book and worthy of the storm and times it describes.”
Ellen Urbani is the author of Landfall and the memoir When I Was Elena documenting her life in Guatemala during the final years of that country’s civil war. Her autobiographical essays and short stories have appeared in a variety of bestselling pop-culture anthologies as well as the New York Times.