EVE LA SALLE CARAM

Eve La Salle Caram is the author of four novels, Dear Corpus Christi, Wintershine, Rena, A Late Journey and The Blue Geography. She is also the editor of Palm Readings, Stories From Southern California, a multicultural anthology of stories by Southern California women. A member of Greenpeace who grew up in the Arkansas Ouachita foothills and on the South Texas Coast, she loves the outdoors. For more than twenty-five years she has taught Fiction Writing in the Writers' Program, UCLA Extension (www.uclaextension.edu/writers) and Literature and Writing at California State University Northridge. She is the recipient of UCLA Extension's Outstanding Teacher Award in Creative Writing for 2006. She also teaches at Los Angeles City College. Her books have been used as texts in literature and writing classes at universities and colleges in Southern California and in Texas. A short novel, Looking for Johnny and a collection of stories, Eight Stories, are forthcoming.

Her books are available at Amazon.com and Plain View Press (www.plainviewpress.net).

Eve's email is: ecaram@roadrunner.com

First published by Plain View Press, 1991

"Wonderful and very touching, " by John Rechy.

"A novel that speaks of ephermeral joy," by Cathy Downs, English Professor, Texas A&M.

"Her deep feelings for that place and its people come to us as truth..." by Elizabeth Spencer.

Published by Plain View Press 2000

"Eve La Salle Caram has crafted a stunning journey across the century, offered to us in the powerful voice of Rena, her ninety-year-old character who, in healing her past, finds herself in a contemporary world of drugs and violence. A poignant tale that will remain in our minds well into the next millennium," by Maria Amparo Escandon (Author, Esperanza's Box of Saints)

"A lyrical telling of an ordinary but not uncomplicated life, the rhythms in Rena, A Late Journey, are magical and gentle; the losses and revelations gut wrenching. Caram's enchanting novel brings healing in the form of a friendship that sees no boundaries of color or age or passage of time, unity through shared memories and pain," by Louinn Lota (Arts and Education Writer, Associated Press)

Published by Plain View Press 1994

"...a lyrical account of the beauty found in ordinary life," by Texas Books in Review.

"A book of open detail and whirling bits of memory," by Small Press Review.

"...a delicate tale of childhood that will bring tears of recognition," by L.A. Times Reader Review.

"Eve La Salle Caram's warm hearted novel, Wintershine, portrays with love and wonder the early childhood of Beatrice Merrill who grows up in the foothills of the Ozarks surrounded by both her colorful but driven and disconnected family and the woods and hills and streams and woodspeople of her family's back country home. It is this world of nature and the real and, sometimes, revealed personages who live within it that particularly shape Bea's inquisitive, outreaching spirit and which, even before she enters school, become the landscape of her deepest spiritual connections. Wintershine is an affirming and honest exploration of those forces, first encountered in childhood, that connect us all, psychologically and spiritually, to nature," Karl Barnebey, (Editor, Snow Egret)

Published by Plain View Press 2005

The Blue Geography continues the story of the characters in the critically acclaimed short novel, Wintershine. A mercurial book about the quest for freedom and the pursuit of happiness, it interweaves four stories which span the 20th century; those of Beatrice, her mother, Louise, her Uncle Robin (all of whom narrate) and that of Beatrice's uncle, Lyman Roy...

An American myth, a chase after a dream that spans continents and oceans, a long rainbow - in this case, Scotland to Maui, this is a book that explores the concept of boundlessness and a quest for freedom of the spirit.

First finalist The Texas Review 2001 novel contest, judged by George Garrett.

"So real, so rich -- and poignant. Beautifully written. Fabulous!! I love this book!" by a reader who read this on Christmas Day.

"The Blue Geography is marked by lyrical passages of memory reminiscent (to me) of the writing of Louise Erdrich and by sharply etched dialogue. While the book's subtitle, "A Roman," may encourage some readers to think of the popular romance genre, the book is in fact a serious, well-wrought work of literature." - by George Uba, Author The Disorient Ballroom.

"This is the story of a family told in multiple voices. It is more than that however. The prose shimmers with the details of the landscape in all seasons, and the characters' voices present life as they see it and know it in an unusual clarity for each persona. I love this book!" - Amazon.com Review

Published by Plain View Press 1998

"I was quickly drawn in to these beautifully written and poignant stories of different cultures, and greatly affected as I read on," by Fred Roos (Producer of Godfather I and III, The Secret Garden and The Black Stallion.

"This anthology is best remembered for the unique voices that emerge from these stories written by seven women, most of whom come from bicultural backgrounds. It ushers the reader into the world of a Chinese woman transplanted in San Francisco, the era of Diego Rivera, war-torn Philippines, and other fictive realities reflecting the rich cultural diversity in Southern California. Eve La Salle Caram should be congratulated for this book project!" by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (Author When the Rainbow Goddess Wept)