{"id":2207,"date":"2012-07-07T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T05:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2012-06-20T12:52:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:52:45","slug":"karen-white-signing-sea-change-off-square-books-5pm-thu-712","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/karen-white-signing-sea-change-off-square-books-5pm-thu-712\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen White signing *Sea Change* (Off-Square Books, 5pm THU 7\/12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Karen White Signing <em>Sea Change<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Off-Square Books, 5 pm<br \/>\nThursday &#8211; 07\/12\/2012<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2208\" title=\"white-book\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/white-book.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>For as long as she can remember, Ava Whalen has struggled with a sense of not belonging, and now, at thirty-five, she still feels stymied by her family. Then she meets child psychologist Matthew Frazier and thinks her days of loneliness are behind her. After a whirlwind romance, they impulsively elope, and Ava moves to Matthew&#8217;s ancestral home on St. Simons Island, off the coast of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>But after the initial excitement, Ava is surprised to discover that true happiness continues to elude her. There is much she doesn&#8217;t know about Matthew, including the mysterious circumstances surrounding his first wife&#8217;s death. And her new home seems to hold as many mysteries and secrets as her new husband. Feeling adrift, Ava throws herself into uncovering Matthew&#8217;s family history and that of the island, not realizing that she has a connection of her own to this place&#8211;or that her obsession with the past could very well destroy her future.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-2209\" title=\"KarenWhite\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/KarenWhite.jpg?resize=189%2C240\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"240\" \/>After playing hooky one day in the seventh grade to read\u00a0<em>Gone With the Wind<\/em>,\u00a0Karen White\u00a0knew she wanted to be a writer\u2014or become Scarlett O&#8217;Hara. In spite of these aspirations, Karen pursued a degree in business and graduated cum laude with a BS in Management from Tulane University. Ten years later, after leaving the business world, she fulfilled her dream of becoming a writer and wrote her first book.<\/p>\n<p>Karen currently writes what she refers to as \u2018grit lit\u2019\u2014Southern women\u2019s fiction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Karen White<\/span> hails from a long line of Southerners but spent most of her growing up years in London, England. She currently lives near Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and two teenaged children, and a spoiled Havanese dog (who appears in several of her books), Quincy.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen White Signing Sea Change Off-Square Books, 5 pm Thursday &#8211; 07\/12\/2012 For as long as she can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[300,190,19],"tags":[449,448,450],"class_list":["post-2207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localart","category-local-business","category-local-news","tag-karen-white","tag-off-square-books","tag-sea-change"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}