Roseburg Library hosts award-winning author

ROSEBURG, Ore. – Roseburg Public Library invites the community to an evening with award-winning Oregon author Victor Lodato at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13.

Lodato will share his latest work, “Honey: A Novel,” which recently was named a finalist for Literary Arts’ Oregon Book Awards in the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction category.

“Honey” is Honey Fasinga, the daughter of a New Jersey mob boss who fled her family for college and Los Angeles, where she worked at an art house. Now in her 80s, she is back home, coming to terms with her biological family and creating a found family.

The first 20 attendees to the library program will receive a free, hardcover copy of “Honey,” courtesy of Friends of the Roseburg Public Library. Lodato will offer a limited number of his books for cash-only sale.

Lodato also is the author of the novels “Mathilda Savitch,” which won the 2010 PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction and the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, and “Edgar and Lucy,” as well as essays, short fiction and plays.

Lodato is a Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Princess Grace Foundation, the Camargo Foundation (France), and the Bogliasco Center (Italy). A New Jersey native, he now divides his time between Ashland, Ore., and Arizona.

The program, which will be held at the library located at 1409 NE Diamond Lake Blvd., is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Roseburg Public Library staff at 541-492-7050 or library@roseburgor.gov.