March Author Event!! Sharon Edwards

March Author Event this Saturday at Artesia Library! Sharon Edwards

Sharon Edwards reads from, discusses, and signs Pioneer Boulevard: Los Angeles Stories.

The ten stories in Pioneer Boulevard, named for the Artesia street known as Little India, are set in the Indian community of Los Angeles, in the context of the recent economic crisis. The sense of an overstretched, underfinanced world pervades these narratives. One woman must clinch the job that will sponsor her work permit; another has to sell her wedding necklace to pay thebills. A third learns about an unplanned pregnancy days after her husband has received notice of an impending layoff. Farcical and somber, wry and tender, these stories draw us into the chaotic, comic world of the pioneer, where habits of consumption and ways of relating-and even ofspeaking-are constantly in flux.

Sharon Edwards, who was born and raised in India, became a US Citizen in 2005, six years after moving to Los Angeles. She holds a MA in English from Pune University, India, and one in Creative Writing from Keele University, United Kingdom. She has mostly worked in publishing and entertainment, and her last full-time job was that of a proofreader at Warner Bros., Burbank.

Copies of Pioneer Blvd. will be available for sale at this event.