Old Capitol Books welcomes John Steinbeck Fellow and nationally-recognized novelist Peter Nathaniel Malae, who will be launching his fourth book, Son of Amity, on Thursday, November 15 at 6pm.

Peter Nathaniel Malae is the award-winning author of Our Frail Blood, What We Are, and the story collection Teach the Free Man. A former John Steinbeck Fellow, Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellow, and MacDowell Colony Fellow, Malae lives in the Pacific Northwest.

In Son of Amity, three lives on the verge of ruin intersect in the small Oregon town of Amity: Pika, a half-Samoan ex-con from California, seeks to deliver justice to his sister’s rapist; Michael, a five-tour Iraq War Marine, faces the cracked mirror of his own embattled soul; and Sissy, a recent convert to Catholicism, must resist the lure of ruthless self-judgment and discover what love is. At the center of this storm is five-year old Benji, whose wide-eyed energy and open hearted faith could show all of them how to still be saved.

Writers from the Edge Reading Series, as part of the Creative Writing and Social Action program in the School of Humanities and Communication at CSUMB, is partnering with the Otter Cross Cultural Center, the English Department at Cabrillo College, the Tanimura & Antle Family Memorial Library, the John Steinbeck Library in Salinas, Out of Our Minds on KKUP, and Old Capitol Books to present this special event.