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Time Tested Books
is pleased to present
Yon Walls
reading & signing her new book
Seeing Colette
Thursday, November 13th, at 7:00pm
with special guest Cori Martinez
It’s 1912. After a fatal epidemic, a young woman named
Colette Stonethrower flees her village to a life as an orphanage guardian,
until another tragedy changes everything. As she leaves again on faith migrating
far from the place of her birth, she meets a talented, idealistic stranger and
makes a friend from a foreign land that becomes her trusted confidant.
While her new life reveals her purpose--fighting for the
working poor and the destitute, exposing corruption and advocating for the arts--she encounters the merciless genesis of urban industrialization that marks the
American era of mass consumption and machination. She also witnesses the
beginnings of an artistic renaissance, forbidden love, the outbreak of World War
I, and encounters the blossoming of a love like no other.
Yet despite her struggles and some good fortune, she’s also inheritor of something that will endure the generations. Set during the beginning of the last century, written lyrically—in prose sometimes like a delicate poem or an impressionist narrative, with surprising characters that enter and exit as in a dream, Seeing Colette is a novella to sense and savor.
Yon Walls was born in Owensboro, Kentucky and has been a
resident of California since 1972. Her poems have appeared in the Walrus Literary Review, Syllogism, The Santa
Clara Review, Parkway Journal of
Hiroshima, Japan and the on-line publication, Niedergasse. In 2000, she earned her MFA in English & Creative Writing from Mills College and has
attended craft workshops with Chana
Bloch, Elmaz Abinader, Quincy Troupe, Elizebeth Willis and Toi Derricotte. She has performed public readings with Deborah Major, Jose Montoya, Kathryn Holwein,
Charles Blackwell and others. She can be found online at SPICYLETTER
Yet despite her struggles and some good fortune, she’s also inheritor of something that will endure the generations. Set during the beginning of the last century, written lyrically—in prose sometimes like a delicate poem or an impressionist narrative, with surprising characters that enter and exit as in a dream, Seeing Colette is a novella to sense and savor.
A
beautiful and relatable debut memoir of a woman who-while vehemently
avoiding the idea of God under all circumstances-finds herself
passionately inspired by the higher power she discovers on a yoga mat.
As she keeps digging- through marriage, new motherhood, business
ownership, plus practicing and teaching yoga herself-she is surprised to
find a deep affection and experience of God...as a thread that
gracefully connects all aspects of her life and allows her to trust in
its unfolding. In beautiful prose, Plus One explores the possibility we
all have of finding connection and peace in the lives we are living.
Cori Martinez teaches groups and coaches individuals in
self-inquiry, yoga practices, meditation, personal growth and she is
the owner of Asha Yoga in Sacramento, CA. Her overall intention is to
support people in living real life with wisdom, skill and Grace. For
her, this looks like learning to breathe consciously, to question
beliefs that argue with reality and are unkind to you or someone else.
It looks like being honest, vulnerable, authentic, and keeping an open
mind and an open heart while the joys and tribulations of life unfold.
She writes for prominent yoga and wellness websites such as MindBodyGreen, elephant journal, and Yoganonymus, and also writes her own successful blog: Memos From Your Highest Self.
(more info on facebook)
This event is FREE & all are welcome.
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