UNM professor to reads and sign new novel at UNM Bookstore
Set in the United States after 2008, A Journey, a Reckoning and a Miracle by K. J. Fraser follows the stories of three fellow Americans: Lucy, a seventeen-year-old Rapture believer travels on a pilgrimage from her home in Texas to honor the dead from massacres; Judith, a young black soldier severely injured in Iraq, and a fictional George Bush who begins to have nightmares and visions in which he’s visited by a host of ghosts, including zombies, Mother Nature, Machiavelli, Schopenhauer and a couple of former presidents.
Informed as much by religion and politics as it is by adventure and humor, this magical story, A Journey, a Reckoning and a Miracle, reaches out to all. Almost everyone, if old enough, has had to change beliefs with new experiences, to acknowledge mistakes and make amends, and, in the face of terrible adversity, to summon the courage and creativity to try something new. As the characters in the story find out, this can happen with a little help from family, friends, history, myth, and higher powers, through the grace of imagination.
Currently on the faculty of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Kathryn J. Fraser is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry. For over seven years she has been the medical director of the Continuing Care Clinic at the UNM Psychiatric Center where she does patient care, administration and teaching.
Fraser will be at the UNM Bookstore on Saturday, Sept. 12 from 2-4 p.m. for a reading and book signing. The UNM Bookstore is located at 2301 Central Ave. NE at the intersection of Cornell and Central. Parking will be validated in the parking structure for up to one hour with purchase.
For more information, call Lisa Walden at 505-277-7494 or email lwalden@unm.edu.
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