Meet & Greet With Local Author Julia Park Tracey

She went looking for Laura. She found herself.
Lonely librarian Nelly sets out to walk in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s footsteps—only to find that the prairie isn’t as romantic as she imagined. As she confronts the darker legacies of the Little House series—racism, revisionist nostalgia, and the shadowy influence of Rose Wilder Lane—Nelly must reckon with her own buried truths.

This presentation is not for children. Whoa, Nelly! is a book for adults, with themes of childhood trauma/abuse and dissociation through literature.

Julia Park Tracey is an award-winning journalist and author of nine books, with an emphasis on women’s history and her female ancestors’ stories. Inspired by a mysterious train receipt in her family’s scrapbook, she researched her Orphan Train roots and continues to write novels about her found relatives. A lifelong fan of the Little House books, Tracey put her train-traveling time when crossing the American prairie to good use when she toured for her previous novels. She is the author of The Bereaved, Silence, and Tongues of Angels. She lives in Grass Valley.

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