Book Talk – Local YA Author Elizabeth Foscue
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Books/Poetry: Signing/Club/Literary
Chaucer's Books
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Date & Time
Tue, Jul 18 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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3321 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105
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Chaucer's Books
Chaucer’s Books (3321 State Street) will host local YA author Elizabeth Foscue for an in store book talk and signing for the release of her new book “Boat Girl: A Misadventure” on Tuesday, July 18 at 6 p.m.
Description of “Boat Girl: A Misadventure”
From the author of Pest–a Washington Post Noteworthy Book–comes a hilarious new novel that showcases the author’s talents at their best.Fifteen-year-old Caitlin Davies’s life is challenging enough. She’s short. She’s scrawny. She prefers Evernote to SnapChat. She’s two years younger than everyone else in her grade. And now her parents are taking the family to the British Virgin Islands (BVI)–for a year–to live on a derelict sailboat, bought sight-unseen from navigationally-impaired cigar smugglers. So when her best–and only–friend suggests she use the move as a chance to reinvent herself, Caitlin has nothing to lose.
And it works. People (plural ) in the BVI actually like her, and not only because of the interesting stuff she found beneath her new home’s splintery floorboards. Even Tristan, the cutest guy on the island, is beguiled by her easygoing air and artfully padded bikini top. She just can’t help wondering, though, if New Caitlin and the real Caitlin have anything in common. And when the sailboat’s former owners come looking for their forgotten contraband, she wonders if she’ll ever get the chance to find out.With a fresh style and perspective, and bursting with humor and charm, Boat Girl is a quirky and fast-paced YA coming-of-age story that will have you laughing out loud.
About the Author Elizabeth Foscue
Elizabeth Foscue grew up in a house on a Florida bay and on a boat in the Caribbean Sea. A hurricane got the house, but the boat has fared better. She earned a B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Florida then a J.D. and LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center, and in the midst of all that got married in a church on a hill in the British Virgin Islands. A hurricane got the church, but the marriage has fared better. Elizabeth lives in Santa Barbara, California with her husband, kids, and two Tortola-born coconut retrievers. Her debut novel, Pest, was a Washington Post Noteworthy Book and her second novel, Boat Girl, will be released this June.