Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum post-reading after party

Please join us for an after-reading celebration of local short story author Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum's debut novel, Elita, from 8:30-10pm in our Theater Lobby.

The reading will place at Elliot Bay Books – Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum with Tara Conklin and Kristen Millares Young

Thursday January 30th, 2025 @ 7:00PM – 8:00 PM. Event info – https://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/43787

Elita is an American literary take on the Nordic noir genre.

Unfolding during the moody Pacific Northwest winter of 1951, Elita follows Bernadette Baston, scholar of child development and language acquisition, as she travels to a penitentiary on the remote island Elita in the Puget Sound to consult on a curious case: two guards have discovered an animal-like adolescent girl living alone in the cold woods beyond the prison’s walls. There are few answers, but many people who know more than they are saying. According to official reports, the girl, dubbed Atalanta, does not speak. Is her silence protecting someone? The prison warden, court-appointed guardian, and police detective embroil Bernadette in resolving a secret that the tight-knit island community has long held, and her investment in the girl’s case soon becomes more personal than professional. As a mother, wife, and woman bound by mid-twentieth-century expectations, Bernadette strategizes to retain the fragile control she has over her own freedom, identity, and future, which becomes inextricably tied to solving Atalanta’s case.

The House bar will be open to serve alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.