We are always thrilled to support the amazing community of talented authors who live locally, and so are very pleased to welcome Kathleen Basi to Skylark to launch her debut novel, A SONG FOR THE ROAD.
Even as our hope of a return to normal life continues to grow, our priority remains keeping our staff and customers safe, and so this will - for now, at any rate - be an online event. Since this is a launch party, though, we wanted this to be more of a celebration, with more audience participation, and so rather than the usual Zoom webinar, this will be a regular Zoom event. Here is the link. Kathleen will be in conversation with novelist Barbara Claypole White. There will be conversation, a reading, music, and more! Don’t miss it!
In A SONG FOR THE ROAD, Kathleen takes readers on an unconventional road trip across the U.S. as her characters explore the depth of human frailty, resilience and the healing power of music. Described as a cross between Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Katherine Center’s How to Walk Away, this gorgeous novel looks at what it means to honor the ones we love.
Miriam Tedesco has lost faith in humanity after her two children and husband perished in a horrific car accident. One year later, Miriam stumbles across a road trip that had been planned by her daughter. Taking her daughter’s cello, her son’s unfinished piano sonata, and her husband’s guitar, she embarks on a cross-country road trip in search of hope.
Best-selling author Barbara Claypole White praises the novel: “A Song for the Road is an emotionally complex story about reconciling love with loss and the healing power of music. I loved every scene from the first to the last.”
Author and liturgical composer Kathleen M. Basi is mother to three active boys (read that: always breaking something) and one chromosomally-gifted daughter. A proud native of flyover country and an honest-to-goodness farm girl (as in cattle, hogs, chickens, grain bins and a combine), she spent her childhood climbing trees, jumping off hay bales and chasing cattle back into their pasture when they broke through fences. (But she never once tipped a cow.)
Her degrees are in flute performance, and she has been involved in music for Catholic worship since she was ten years old. She’s been writing stories even longer than that. (School bus. First grade. Orphan Annie fanfic.) She believes the written word and the sung note should make the world a better place. That doesn’t mean pretending ugliness doesn’t exist. The world is messy, and pretending otherwise just makes it harder for everyone. She aspires to acknowledges the reality of the world while pointing toward what makes it most beautiful.
