Author Description

Product Description The latest book by Lynn Rogers is captivating, humorous and lyrical in her Beat style. Much like her other books, Born in Berkeley, Where the Flowers Have Gone, The Rainbow's Daughter, A Valley of Ashes, Shadow Over the Beach, Parting the Veil and A Burst of Sunrise, this is the continuing saga of Flower Child Caroline Ryder. --Will Radcliffe, inklingpress.com. Review Side Roads is Rogers' latest and highlights the wonders of San Jose's underbelly. Set in a back house behind a decrepit Victorian in Japantown, the story unfolds around James, a beleaguered single dad who dates a string of immigrant women. Caroline Ryder, a character from a previous Rogers book, is now renamed "Lara" by a drunk at the Empire Laundry on 13th Street. She's caught in a love triangle with a Silicon Valley executive who still lives with his estranged wife in Willow Glen. Think globally, read locally #1 read. --Gary Singh, Silicon Valley Metro From the Author Lynn Rogers is the author of the Born and Berkeley series, Edgar Cayce and the Eternal Feminine; Alviso, San Jose, and well-reviewed the post 9-11 mystery, A Valley of Ashes. She won as artist and author as 2010 Woman of Achievement for the Penwomen of America. She is well reviewed in the Silicon Valley Metro and through other south San Francisco Bay Area medias sources. She lives, loves and lectures on the edge of San Jose and Los Gatos. From the Back Cover In the spirit of a Boomer-Beat style that so animates much of Rogers' work, Side Roads deals with what John Lennon described as "...just what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." (I take more Side Roads without you.") From the pain of romantic travail can come opportunity, surprise, relief, and great joy. The latest novel, Side Roads, is Rogers returning strongly at her most humorous, lyrical, and captivating--a novel that enjoys itself like a L