Becoming Lin Blog Tour

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Blog Tour Schedule

June 2017 - Confirmed Dates

June 8
The Character Connection
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June 9
The Plot Thickens
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and
Simplistik
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June 12
City Girl Who Loves to Read
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June 13
Tribute Books Mama
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June 14
Tribute Books Reviews
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June 15
Faith Flaherty
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June 16
Simple Wyrdings
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June 24
Reading Challenged
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June 29
Dianne Ascroft
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Tricia Dower

Web Site:
triciadower.com

Bio:
TRICIA DOWER hails from Rahway, New Jersey. You can find her on the “Rahway’s Own” website with other individuals the town has recognized for innovation and creativity. A graduate of Gettysburg College and a Phi Mu, she built a career in business before reinventing herself as a writer in 2002. Her literary work has crossed borders and won awards. She expanded a story from her Shakespeare-inspired collection, Silent Girl (Inanna 2008) into Stony River, which was published in both Canada (Penguin 2012) and the US (Leapfrog 2016). She gave a character from Stony River her own novel in Becoming Lin (Caitlin Press 2016), now available in the US.

The Vancouver Sun says, “Some of the most powerful and eloquent novelists of the 20th and 21st centuries…including Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence and Ethel Wilson...open up what had been cloaked in silence, the oppression of women and their self-discoveries in resistance. We can now add to this important liberation canon the name of Tricia Dower.”

A dual citizen of Canada and the United States, Dower lives and writes in Brentwood Bay, BC.

To Purchase Book

Price/Formats: $12.99 ebook,
$22.95 paperback
Genre: Women's Fiction, Historical, Coming of Age
Pages: 240
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Release: March 20, 2017
ISBN: 9781987915075
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Summary:
It’s 1965. Twenty-two-year-old Linda Wise despairs of escaping her overprotective parents and the town of Stony River where far too many know she was sexually assaulted as a teenager. Deliverance arrives in the form of marriage to the charismatic, twenty-six-year-old Ronald Brunson, a newly ordained Methodist minister who ignites in her a dormant passion for social justice. He tells her war and racial discrimination are symptoms of the “moral rot” destroying the country, conjuring up something dark and rancid in her mind, thrilling in its wickedness. He sweeps her away from New Jersey to serve with him at a church in a speck-on-the-map prairie town in Minnesota. What lies ahead for her over the next seven years is the subject of Tricia Dower’s penetrating study of a marriage and a woman’s evolving sense of self as she confronts the fear that keeps her from an unfettered future. Becoming Lin conjures the turbulent era of Freedom Riders for civil rights, Vietnam war resistance, the US government’s war against the resisters, the push for equal rights for women and the unraveling of the traditional marriage contract—an era that resonates today in tenacious racism and sexism, perpetual war and wide-reaching government surveillance.

Review:
“Moving, well crafted and thoughtful, Becoming Lin is a novel of ideas and politics in the very best sense. Dower shows us the tectonic shifts that undergird a culture in transition while respecting the fine grain human detail of the characters’ own poignant stories.”
— Vancouver Sun