The Literary Sojourn Author Study is a sequence of seminars designed to enhance the experience of reading for this year's Literary Sojourn. Participants read and discuss works from each of the featured guest authors prior to the event.

All discussions will be held at in the new Bud Werner Memorial Library second floor community meeting room on the Tuesday evening date at 6 p.m. For a complete list of the 2008 participating authors' works, click here.

Michelle Dover, Bud Werner Memorial Library's Circulation Manager, will be the facilitator of the seminars. For more information about the Literary Sojourn Author Study seminars, please call Michelle at (970) 879-0240, ext. 307.

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June 3
Mayflower, by Nathaniel Philbrick
From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the well-known tale of piety and sacrifice; it is a fifty-five-year epic that is at once tragic, heroic, exhilarating, and profound.

July 8
Sarah Canary, by Karen Joy Fowler
When an enigmatic woman cloaked in black wanders into a Chinese labor camp in the Pacific Northwest of 1873, one man is chosen to lead her out into the woods. But soon, he becomes the enchanted follower. Thus begins a magical journey. . . .

August 5
Amy and Isabelle, by Elizabeth Strout
In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged in their every glance. But when Amy is discovered behind the steamed-up windows of a car with her math teacher, the vast and icy distance between mother and daughter becomes apparently unbridgeable. In this stunning novel, Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets.

August 26
The Confessions of Max Tivoli,
by Andrew Sean Greer
Set against the backdrop of San Francisco
at the turn of the twentieth century, The Confessions of Max Tivoli is a heartbreaking love story told in the voice of a man who appears to age backwards. A beautiful and daring feat of the imagination, this bestselling novel reveals the world through the eyes of a “monster,” a being who confounds
the very certainties by which we live and in
doing so embodies what it truly means to be human.