

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Author Event with Tamika Thompson
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 11 Apr, 2026 at 02:00 pm – Sat, 11 Apr, 2026 at 03:30 pm (-07:00)
- **Event Description**: Tamika Thompson speaks about her book The Curse of Hester Gardens.About this EventJoin us in celebrating the release of local author Tamika Thompson’s newest, The Curse of Hester Gardens, an innovative twist on the haunted house novel: about a mother desperate to protect her sons from the twin specters of gun violence and otherworldly menace in their public housing project.Nona McKinley raised three boys in the Hester Gardens section of Medford, Michigan, an impoverished community divided by those who follow their faith in God and those who turn to crime to survive. With her drug dealer husband behind bars and her eldest son shot to death at eighteen, Nona has devoted herself to ensuring her other children escape their brother’s fate. Her second son Marcus is on the right path. He's a valedictorian heading to an Ivy League school. He can get out.But then, strange things start happening to Nona and other residents: mysterious footsteps are heard when she’s alone, people have phantom encounters in the streets, unattended appliances go off at all hours. Even more concerning is the state of Nona’s living sons. Her youngest, Lance, is hanging around with a bad crowd, and Marcus becomes moody and secretive. Sometimes he even seems to act like a different person entirely.Nona has her secrets too. Her affair with the married church pastor has been weighing on her conscience, but that’s not the only guilt haunting her. She fears that someone—or something— is seeking revenge for an act she made in a moment of weakness to protect her family. And now everyone in Hester Gardens must pay the price . . .Tamika Thompson is the author of The Curse of Hester Gardens. A former journalist and producer, she is also author of Unshod, Cackling, and Naked, which is the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner for Horror, as well as author of Salamander Justice. Her work has appeared in several speculative fiction anthologies as well as in Interzone, Prairie Schooner, The New York Times, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she hosts her own blog and newsletter, Tamika Talks Terror.
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- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Orinda
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Orinda Books
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- **full address**: Orinda Books, 276 Village Square, Orinda, United States

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- **organizer**: Orinda Books (https://allevents.in/org/orinda-books/22750263)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 11 Apr, 2026 at 02:00 pm (-07:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Orinda Books, 276 Village Square, Orinda, United States
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Orinda Books
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Author Event with Tamika Thompson ?
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