Author Christie Nelson has said the very best part of the writer’s journey is making friends of strangers — which is what she hopes to do as HCC’s guest speaker.
More than 83 years later we are still talking about the World’s Fair that took place on San Francisco’s Treasure Island which helped celebrate the Bay Area and it’s two newly built bridges.
Nelson’s leading characters are Lily Nordby, a reporter for the Examiner; Tokido Okamura, the host of the Japanese Pavilion and Woodrow Packard, a Mayan art scholar. Mixing fact and fiction with a dash of noir, “Beautiful Illusion” is a story of love and deception that explores what happens when human hearts collide as the world is plotting war.
Christie Nelson is a third-generation San Franciscan. Raised in the Marina, she crossed the great divide of the Golden Gate Bridge to attend Dominican University. She lived in a turn of the century mansion on campus which surely launched an imaginative view the world around her. And, with fog in her veins, she later helped open a bookstore on the coast of Maine before returning to where she left her heart. Today, Nelson is a longtime Marin County resident.
“Beautiful Illusion” is her third novel. Christie will have some of her books for sale at $10, cash.