Free event!

Join us to celebrate the release of Andrea Granahan’s latest book “Spitting on Great Aunt Missouri’s Grave”. Andrea will share selected readings, answer audience questions and sign books, available for purchase at the event.

A true story from the Deep South, Vella, mostly Native American. She had a Creek mother  and Cherokee father with a dash of European. She was orphaned because her mother died at her birth and her father left the newborn with relatives. The relative who got her at age three was a sadistic aunt. To escape, Vella married at fifteen, and was a widow with a child at seventeen. During her second marriage, she herself became a child abuser. “Spitting on Great Aunt Missouri’s Grave” is a story about the enduring power of love to heal and transform, even in the face of unimaginable adversity. Through the characters’ struggles and growth, it delivers profound messages about forgiveness, redemption, and the unbreakable bonds of family.

Andrea Granahan is the author of five previous books. She was an award-winning investigative journalist and is a travel writer. Her previous book The Wandering Widow won the gold medal for best travel book of 2022 from North American Travel Journalists Association. She lives in northern California near the coast. For years she published a weekly newspaper, The Bodega Bay Navigator. She raised her family in west Sonoma County.