from author’s website
ABOUT:
Amy Mason Doan grew up in Danville, California and now lives in Portland, Oregon.
She’s written for The Oregonian, San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, Forbes, and other publications. Amy has an M.A. in Journalism from Stanford University and a B.A. in English from U.C. Berkeley.
Her novels THE SUMMER LIST and SUMMER HOURS are out now, and LADY SUNSHINE publishes on June 29, 2021. All are emotional, layered stories about secrets, lifelong friendship, and the inescapable tug of the past. “Doan’s characters leap off the page,” says Publishers Weekly.
FIVE FUN FACTS (as told by Amy):
My daughter is named after a character in The Tempest.
I type 90 words per minute.
I collect 99-cent VHS copies of 70s movies like The Turning Point and My Bodyguard and Little Darlings.
I won a contest and got to fly to a movie premiere to meet Judy Blume.
I learned how to ride a motorcycle on an outback ranch in Australia.
ABOUT LADY SUNSHINE:
ONE ICONIC FAMILY. ONE SUMMER OF SECRETS. THE DAZZLING SPIRIT OF 1970S CALIFORNIA.
For Jackie Pierce, everything changed the summer of 1979, when she spent three months of infinite freedom at her bohemian uncle’s sprawling estate on the California coast. As musicians, artists, and free spirits gathered at The Sandcastle for the season in pursuit of inspiration and communal living, Jackie and her cousin Willa fell into a fast friendship, testing their limits along the rocky beach and in the wild woods… until the summer abruptly ended in tragedy, and Willa silently slipped away into the night.
Twenty years later, Jackie unexpectedly inherits The Sandcastle and returns to the iconic estate for a short visit to ready it for sale. But she reluctantly extends her stay when she learns that, before her death, her estranged aunt had promised an up-and-coming producer he could record a tribute album to her late uncle at the property’s studio. As her musical guests bring the place to life again with their sun-drenched beach days and late-night bonfires, Jackie begins to notice startling parallels to that summer long ago. And when a piece of the past resurfaces and sparks new questions about Willa’s disappearance, Jackie must discover if the dark secret she’s kept ever since is even the truth at all.
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AUTHOR VISITS:
Amy Mason Doan is available to visit with book clubs (video chat and in-person) via NovelNetwork.com.