Author Talk - Susan Zurenda

Susan Beckham Zurenda taught English for thirty-three years to college and high school students. Her debut novel, Bells for Eli, has received several awards including first place for Best First Book—Fiction in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Zurenda has also published and won numerous awards for her short fiction. A life-long South Carolinian, she lives in Spartanburg. Join Susan at the North Port Library as she discusses her new book The Girl from the Red Rose Motel. 

Inspired by her experiences teaching in a Spartanburg, South Carolina, public high school and knowledge of homeless students living in motels, The Girl From the Red Rose Motel revolves around two high school students from vastly different backgrounds who improbably fall in love, and with the support of their sympathetic English teacher, attempt to navigate complications readers might never imagine.