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Book Signing and Reading Event with Bruce Machart, Author of Wake of Forgiveness

Bruce Machart, author and Lone Star College-North Harris English professor, will hold a book signing and reading event Wednesday, Nov. 17, at LSC-North Harris. Machart’s debut novel, The Wake of Forgiveness, arrived in bookstores nationwide this October and has received high praise from critics and colleagues. The event will begin at 1 p.m. in room 101 of the college’s continuing education building.

The Wake of Forgiveness, chronicles the trials of its lead character, Karel, and his family in early-20th-century Texas. The fast-paced story centers on a high-stakes horse race and the consequences of its outcome, for both Karel and those around him.

Copies of The Wake of Forgiveness can be purchased at the book signing for $22.52. Cash, check and credit cards will be accepted.

A native Texan, Machart grew up in The Woodlands area. His father grew up on a cash-crop farm in rural south Texas not far from the Lavaca County landscape of The Wake of Forgiveness. After graduating from McCullough high school, Bruce worked his way through eight years of undergraduate study before graduating from the University of Houston and leaving for the Midwest and graduate work in Columbus, Ohio. He later spent three years in the Boston area, where he taught literature and writing at Berklee College of Music, Boston University, and Grub Street Writers before joining Lone Star College.

“I'm sure I didn't realize it at the time, but I must have begun writing this novel because I wanted to understand why the landscape and the vernacular of rural south Texas trigger in me such a sense of longing. It's a kind of homesickness, I guess, except that what I miss is something that, strangely, I've never really had,” said Machart.

Machart, who has been making appearances around the country to promote the book, has already begun work on his next novel.

Lone Star College-North Harris is located at 2700 W.W. Thorne Drive, one-half mile south of FM 1960 East, between Aldine-Westfield and Hardy Roads. For more information about the college, call 281.618.5400 or visit LoneStar.edu/NorthHarris.

With more than 69,000 students in credit classes for fall 2010, and a total enrollment of more than 85,000, Lone Star College System is the largest institution of higher education in the Houston area, and the fastest-growing community college system in Texas. Dr. Richard Carpenter is the chancellor of LSCS, which consists of five colleges including LSC-CyFair, LSC-Kingwood, LSC-Montgomery, LSC-North Harris, and LSC-Tomball, six centers, LSC-University Park, LSC-University Center at Montgomery, LSC-University Center at University Park, Lone Star Corporate College, and LSC-Online. To learn more visit LoneStar.edu.

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