Date
Come meet Margo Candela, a former journalist, and author of five novels, to discuss her latest novel, The Neapolitan Sisters, and her journey from community college student writing for the student newspaper to becoming a successful published author. We hope you can join us for an exciting discussion and book signing!
Thursday
May 18, 2023
1:30 pm – 3 pm
Academic Center, Room 255
Kentfield Campus
and livestream through YouTube.
Free and open to the public with light refreshments.
Contact:
(415) 485-9475
[email protected]
About The Neapolitan Sisters
Three sisters. Three vastly different lives. A maelstrom of family secrets.
Growing up with a kind but alcoholic father and a suspicious, passive aggressive mother, the Bernal sisters each developed their own way of coping: Dulcina had her art and drugs and alcohol, Claudia plunged into her studies and fled to Princeton, and Maritza watched one Disney movie after another in between devouring romance novels.
Now all grown up, the sisters are reunited at last for Maritza’s dream wedding. But they are no less different than they were growing up: Maritza is a princess bridezilla, Claudia is the family “fixer,” and Dulcina “Dooley” is finally sober. With all three Bernal sisters back in their East L.A. home, each begins to take steps to come to terms with each other, their parents, and the secrets from their shared past. While their lives may have taken different paths, they are still sisters at heart.
Told in alternating points of view, The Neapolitan Sisters is a humorous yet moving look at what it means to be a sister, daughter, and ultimately, your
own self, despite the pressures that come with being part of a family.
Margo Candela was born and raised in Los Angeles and began her writing career when she joined Glendale Community College’s student newspaper. She transferred to San Francisco State University as a journalism major, and upon graduation began writing for websites and magazines before writing her first two novels, Underneath It All and Life Over Easy. She returned to
Los Angeles to raise her son and wrote More Than This and Good-bye to All That. The Neapolitan Sisters is her fifth novel and her first after a decade-long hiatus from writing. She now lives in San Francisco.
Learn more at MargoCandela.com.
Sponsors:
Puente Project, COM Communication Program, COM Library
Individuals seeking access support or reasonable accommodations to attend this event may contact Student Activities and Advocacy Office at (415) 485-9376.
