Shinbone Lane
by Laura McHale Holland
September 16-19
For reasons they can’t quite explain, the lost always find themselves on Shinbone Lane…
San Francisco, 1974. Sixteen-year-old runaway Maddy is escaping the blame for a crime she didn’t commit. Miles from home, she is taken under the wing of the elderly Clara and her neighbor Ted, and soon finds a place among the kaleidoscope of personalities on the oddly named Shinbone Lane.
Ted’s three-story Italianate Victorian house overflows with travelers, free spirits, and artists. His backyard is a haven for all who are willing to see its magic. But burdened dancer Eloise Watkins can’t tolerate the transient “riffraff” in her neighborhood. Their frivolity flies in the face of her grief over friendship lost and her daughter who’s missing. And nobody — nobody— understands.
But like all who tread on it, Shinbone Lane has secrets of its own. And like all secrets, they lie uneasily in the dark, until the truth emerges to lay the past to rest.
At the intersection of magic and reality lies Shinbone Lane and its lively cast of characters who intertwine in the mesmerizing brew of life.
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About the Author
Laura McHale Holland was so captivated by San Francisco’s gorgeous vistas and vibrant, free-spirited people during the 1970s that a planned two-week visit stretched into 30 years. This experience inspired her newest novel, Shinbone Lane, a place where magic blends with reality and secrets heal, haunt and transform lives. A recipient of several independent publishing awards, Laura writes stories that bend reality, often featuring characters whose lives have gone terribly wrong but are ultimately redeemable. She now lives in Sonoma County, California, where she continues stretching reality at her keyboard, a pot of strong black tea always nearby.
