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Janelle Brown with Jan Ellison

  • Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA, 94025 United States (map)

Who do you want people to think you are?

Bay Area-native Janelle Brown celebrates the release of her propulsive new novel, Watch Me Disappear with fellow bestselling author Jan Ellison.

A year after Billie Flannigan a Berkeley mom with an enviable life goes missing on a hike, the husband and daughter she leaves behind struggle to maintain the illusion of normal life. Meanwhile, alcohol and depression, and loose ends that just don't make sense erode the foundations of the life they once had. 

Brown, the author of All We Ever Wanted and This is Where We Live, does it again with a heart-stopping new novel that will leave you breathless.

Janelle Brown is the New York Times bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and This Is Where We Live. An essayist and a journalist, she has written for Vogue, The New York Times, Elle, Wired, Self, the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and numerous other publications. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two children.

Jan Ellison is an O. Henry Prize winner and a graduate of Stanford University. She left college for a year at nineteen to travel and work in Europe, taking notes that two decades later became the germ of A Small Indiscretion. Ellison lives in California with her husband of twenty years and their four children.

Earlier Event: August 5
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