SANTA ROSA --

Copperfield’s Books welcomes Nancy Horan to Montgomery Village in celebration of her new novel - The House of Lincoln.

The discussion will be followed by a Q&A and book signing.

This event is free and open to the public. 

An unprecedented view of Lincoln's Springfield from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Loving Frank.

Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal.

Showing intelligence beyond society's expectations, fourteen-year-old Ana Ferreira lands a job in the Lincoln household assisting Mary Lincoln with their boys and with the hostess duties borne by the wife of a rising political star. Ana bears witness to the evolution of Lincoln's views on equality and the Union and observes in full complexity the psyche and pain of his bold, polarizing wife, Mary.

Along with her African American friend Cal, Ana encounters the presence of the underground railroad in town and experiences personally how slavery is tearing apart her adopted country. Culminating in an eyewitness account of the little-known Springfield race riot of 1908, The House of Lincoln takes readers on a journey through the historic changes that reshaped America and that continue to reverberate today.

Author: Nancy Horan is the author Loving Frank (2007), which remained on the New York Times Bestseller list for over a year, was translated into sixteen languages, and received the 2009 Prize for Historical Fiction awarded by the Society of American Historians; Today Show Book Club Pick Under the Wide and Starry Sky (2014); and The House of Lincoln, available June 6 in hardcover. A native Midwesterner, Nancy Horan was a teacher and journalist before turning to fiction writing. She lived for 25 years in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, where she raised her two sons. She now lives with her husband on an island in Puget Sound. Find her at nancyhoran.com