There's No Place Here for You: Young Adults Seeking Home Sunday, October 19  |  4:00 - 5:30 PM Venue: A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore Presenter(s): Beth Kanell, Jessica Powers Disconnected teens may be a familiar theme, but the young people in these novels are pushed to extremes. In Darkness Under the Water by Beth Kanell, sixteen-year-old Molly Ballou discovers the very present danger of her Abenaki Indian heritage during the notorious Vermont Eugenics Project of the 1930's, while J.L. Powers' characters in The Confessional confront racial tension and fatal violence in the border town of El Paso. Bookseller: A Room of One's Own Category(s): Fiction, Native American, Youth & Kids

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