Author Talk with Corky Parker, La Finca: Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island

Corky Parker,  author of the award-winning self-illustrated memoir, La Finca, Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island, is returning to Alaska this summer.  Her book, published in 2021 by Trinity University Press, is this year’s winner of the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association’s Nancy Pearl Award for Memoir, as well as two international design awards for both book and cover design.

At age forty, Parker surrendered to her Swept Away meets Swiss Family Robinson fantasy of running an inn far from her home in the Pacific Northwest. For the next twenty-plus years Parker ran La Finca Caribe, an eco-lodge in Vieques, Puerto Rico. What started as a rough-and-tumble dream grew into a paradise enjoyed by guests from around the world. Sketchbook in hand, Parker chronicled her daily adventures living with the land. La Finca is a lively graphic memoir about a woman creating a new life amid countless challenges, including hurricanes that led her to reconsider everything. It is a story about trusting oneself, self-discovery, accepting disappointment and loss, and falling in love with a place.

“Those 3 acres serve as the book’s main hero. It's about how much we can learn when we love, even land, deeply enough. But as we all know, love is complicated, and nothing lasts forever…"

For more information about the author, visit her website.

Tuesday, August 8th

6:30 to 7:30 pm in the Fireside Lounge and over Zoom

Copies of the book will be available through the Homer Bookstore and on sale at the event.

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