The event for debut young adult novel ‘Remember Me Gone’ will have her in conversation with fiction writer Ginny Myers Sain.
After years of commuting from San Francisco to her day job as a marketing professional at Oakland-based Clorox Co., Stokes says the move to Montclair was a time-saver with unexpected benefits.
“Even when I lived in San Francisco, I attended book launch events in Oakland. I have a critique group, and all of them live in the East Bay. They introduced me to A Great Good Place for Books. I went to a great event there with three tremendous young adult authors that was the last event I attended before the pandemic shutdown. There was warmth and a love of stories. Squeezed in by books, elbow-to-elbow with others, you just feel the coziness. The place makes me feel close to the words.
Stokes says her mother always has a physical, tactile book in her purse and pulls it out while waiting in lines at grocery stores. “Remember Me Gone” cranks up the suspense with Lucy Miller, the book’s 16-year-old protagonist whose family has for generations run a business of erasing people’s memories at Memory House in small-town Tumble Tree, Texas.
“Remember Me Gone” cranks up the suspense with Lucy Miller, the book’s 16-year-old protagonist whose family has for generations run a business of erasing people’s memories at Memory House in small-town Tumble Tree, Texas. People arrive from across the country seeking solace and escape from tragedy-filled, haunting memories and emotions.
“My job is to put a character in a tree, throw rocks, set the tree on fire, give them something to put out the fire that doesn’t work, then have the character solve the problem. It makes a more interesting story.”
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