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<p>Acclaimed short story writer and Swoyersville native Tara Laskowski delivers an unforgettable debut novel with &#8220;One Night Gone.&#8221;</p><p>Laskowski will conduct a presentation and book signing at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12 at Barnes &amp; Noble Booksellers, Arena Hub Plaza, Wilkes-Barre.</p><p>After spending a Thanksgiving at the beach with her family, Laskowski couldn&#8217;t shake the feeling that, within all the off-season beachy quietness, was a sense that, in the nothing happening, anything at all could happen.</p><p>&#8220;One Night Gone&#8221; explores what happens when an outsider with her own unsettled past chips away at the idyllic beach town fa&#231;ade and reveals the sinister secrets buried below. Readers won&#8217;t want to miss this suspenseful novel about power, privilege and, ultimately, sisterhood.</p><p>According to Laskowski, the part electric coming-of-age story and part breathtaking mystery, &#8220;One Night Gone&#8221; is an atmospheric novel about power, privilege and sisterhood.</p><p>One sultry summer, Maureen Haddaway arrives in the wealthy town of Opal Beach to start her life anew &#8212; to achieve her destiny. There, she finds herself lured by the promise of friendship, love, starry skies and wild parties. But Maureen&#8217;s new life just might be too good to be true and, before the summer is over, she vanishes.</p><p>Decades later, when Allison Simpson is offered the opportunity to house-sit in Opal Beach during the off-season, it seems like the perfect chance to begin fresh after a messy divorce. But when she becomes drawn into the mysterious disappearance of a girl 30 years before, Allison realizes the gorgeous homes of Opal Beach hide dark secrets. And the truth of that long-ago summer is not even the most shocking part of all.</p><p>Says Tana French, author of &#8220;The Witch Elm,&#8221; &#8220;The strength of &#8216;One Night Gone&#8217; lies in its all-pervading sense of precariousness: everything is fragile, unstable and under threat, from Maureen&#8217;s prized freedom and Allison&#8217;s hard-won recovery to the intricate framework of relationships and hierarchies that underpins life in the small seaside town. It makes for a subtly but relentlessly unsettling book.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;One Night Gone,&#8221; published by Graydon House Books, is available in trade paperback original Oct. 1.</p><p>A former reporter for the Times Leader, Laskowski is the award-winning author of two short story collections, &#8220;Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons&#8221; and &#8220;Bystanders,&#8221; named a Best Book of 2017 by Jennifer Egan in The Guardian.</p><p>She has had stories published in Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s Mystery Magazine, Mid-American Review and the Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, among others.</p><p>Her Ellery Queen&#8217;s Mystery Magazine story, &#8220;States of Matter,&#8221; was selected by Amy Hempel for the 2017 Best Small Fictions anthology and her short story &#8220;The Case of the Vanishing Professor&#8221; is a finalist for the 2019 Agatha Award.</p><p>Laskowski is the winner of the 2010 Santa Fe Writers Project&#8217;s Literary Awards Prize, has been the editor of the popular online flash fiction journal SmokeLong Quarterly since 2010 and is a member of Sisters in Crime.</p><p>She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in writing from Susquehanna University and an Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from George Mason University.</p><p>The daughter of Bernie Laskowski and the late Ann Laskowski, of Swoyersville, Laskowski now resides in Virginia with her husband Art Taylor and the couple&#8217;s son Dashiell.</p><style>
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Swoyersville native Tara Laskowski to hold book signing at Barnes & Noble on Oct. 12