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OUR STORE IS CLOSED HOWEVER WE ARE STILL PUTTING ON AUTHOR TEA EVENTS

Please join us at La Veranda for a wonderful author tea with Bo Caldwell. The cost of only $35 per person includes coffee, tea, dessert, and a hardcover copy of the book!

Bo Caldwell is the author of the national bestseller The Distant Land of My Father. Her short fiction has been published in Ploughshares, Story, Epoch, and other literary journals. A former Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University, she lives in Northern California with her husband, novelist Ron Hansen.

"What ardent, dazzling souls emerge from these American missionaries in China . . . A beautiful, searing book that leaves an indelible presence in the mind." -Patricia Hampl, author of The Florist's Daughter

Will Kiehn is seemingly destined for life as a humble farmer in the Midwest when, having felt a call from God, he travels to the vast North China Plain in the early twentieth-century. There he is surprised by love and weds a strong and determined fellow missionary, Katherine. They soon find themselves witnesses to the crumbling of a more than two-thousand-year-old dynasty that plunges the country into decades of civil war. As the couple works to improve the lives of the people of Kuang P'ing Ch'eng- City of Tranquil Light, a place they come to love-and face incredible hardship, will their faith and relationship be enough to sustain them?