HOLIDAY FAVORITES
Thanksgiving isn't Thanksgiving without the yams or the macaroni and cheese or the pumpkin pie. The Bee wants to share your family favorites and your memories of what makes them so special.
Deadline: Midnight Nov. 12
Information: E-mail the recipes and your reminiscences to taste@sacbee.com. We cannot accept recipes that are mailed to us. By sending the recipes, you give The Bee permission to reprint or reuse them.
FALL FOLIAGE PHOTO CONTEST
Check out sacbee.com/ leaves for some inspiration, then click the photo contest link for a chance to win a $100 Fry's gift card. Submit your best photo through Nov. 26. We'll pick the 10 best photos and then invite readers to vote Dec. 2-8. The winning photo will be published in the paper Dec. 10. (We get the best newspaper reproduction from images that are 4 megabytes or larger in their graphic applications, such as JPEG.)
COMING TO THE BEE BOOK CLUB
Shanthi Sekaran, 32, grew up in the Arden Oaks area of Sacramento and dedicates her debut novel, "The Prayer Room," to "the house on Winding Creek Road." That's where she lived with "a house full of relatives. I remember growing up surrounded by constant action." It's not surprising, then, that most of her novel takes place in Sacramento.
"The Prayer Room" (MacAdam, $14, 375 pages) is The Bee Book Club's choice for November. It's a story of cultural identity, family secrets and the search for self.
In the novel, George is a British scholar doing research in Madras, India, in 1974 when he meets and hastily marries a young Indian woman named Viji. The couple live for a while in England with George's parents, then immigrate to Sacramento. There, Viji has triplets.
Later, life becomes more complicated when Viji's boorish father-in-law arrives from England and moves in. Finally, she returns to India to visit relatives – will she come back to Sacramento?
Sekaran will appear at 6 p.m. Nov. 12 at Borders Books, 2339 Fair Oaks Blvd., Sacramento; (916) 564-0168. There, she will give a presentation, answer questions and autograph her book. The event is free and open to the public. For more information: (916) 321-1128.
Through Nov. 12, these bookstores are offering a 30 percent discount on "The Prayer Room": Borders, Barnes & Noble, Avid Reader at the Tower in Sacramento, Avid Reader in Davis, Time Tested Books, Book Lovers, Underground Books, the Hornet Bookstore at CSUS, the UC Davis Bookstore and the Bookseller in Grass Valley.
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