FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2010!

7 PM at Caffe Tazza, 122 Kit Carson Road

$8 – members / $6 – Seniors / Free to high school students

LAUREN BJORKMAN will read from her recently published young adult novel, My Invented Life, a spirited and adventurous tale of teen angst, gender issues and relationships.  My Invented Life explores the challenges of being your true self and the effect that secrets have on the people who keep them.  Bjorkman grew up on a sailboat, sharing the forecastle with her sister and the sail bags.  She currently lives in Taos and is working on a new novel about an advice blog gone awry, friendship, Mini Coopers, fake IDs, unplanned pregnancies and fortune cookies.

MARTHA EGAN, the author of two previous novels, Clearing Customs and Coyota, as well as numerous nonfiction books will read from her new collection of short stories (Fall, 2009), La Ranfla and Other New Mexico Stories. She will read from the short story, “Granny”, the last story in La Ranfla.  It is about a college graduate on his way to California whose car breaks down in a small, dusty southern New Mexico town and through his attempting to get his car fixed he discovers two kids who have busted their grandmother out of a Mexican jail.

MUSICAL GUESTS, Taosenos Brooke Zanatell and her husband, Phillip Handmaker, members of the band Zanagroove will play and sing from their selection of funky and zany originals.