Invitation Bookshop welcomes NY Times bestselling author Kristina McMorris to discuss her new book The Girls of Good Fortune with author Marie Bostwick.
Join us for some cocktails and conversation! This event includes time for audience questions and an author signing. Doors open 15 minutes prior to event start.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Oregon, 1888. Amid the subterranean labyrinth of Portland’s Shanghai Tunnels, a woman awakens disoriented in a dank underground cell. Though no stranger to upholding a façade, being half Chinese yet passing as white during a time of rising hatred against Chinese immigrants in America, she’s perplexed by the male disguise she’s wearing. Of more pressing concern, however, are the dangers she faces as a crimped, or “Shanghaied,” sea bound to work as forced labor. While struggling to recall the twisting path that led to her kidnapping—from serving as a maid for the family of a dubious mayor to delving into the shocking case of a goldminers’ massacre, ultimately luring her into the seedy dealings of those Shanghai Tunnels—she desperately tries to escape so she can return to her young daughter, left in danger in a place where unearthed secrets can prove even more deadly than the dark recesses of Chinatown.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
KRISTINA MCMORRIS is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of two novellas and seven historical novels, including the million-copy bestseller Sold on a Monday. The recipient of more than twenty national literary awards, she previously hosted weekly TV shows for Warner Bros. and an ABC affiliate, beginning at age nine with an Emmy Award-winning program. Kristina lives near Portland, Oregon.
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