Introducing "The Far Away" by Elisa Fortise Christensen
Fri, May 02
|Adventure Ink Bookstore and Tea Room
This beloved story started off as a dream and became the tale of five women with incomparable tenacity and courage, all with one thing in common: they'll stop at nothing to get their children back. This is a free event!
Time & Location
May 02, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Adventure Ink Bookstore and Tea Room, 16225 Askin Dr, Pine Mountain Club, CA 93222, USA
About the event
The Far Away
From a remote village in The Congo, a wealthy villa in Tehran, and the colorful courthouses of New Orleans, five extraordinary women’s lives are interwoven as they must face the most heart wrenching of circumstances.What arises from these seemingly insurmountable tragedies is a unique bond between them, for they share a heroism and tenacity that could only be created from the purest of loves: that which a mother has for her child.
Elisa Fortise Christensen is an American author, poet, and public speaker whose message of tenacity and courage inspires others to become warriors in their own life stories. Despite breaking her fifth lumbar in a skateboarding accident during adolescence, she went on to become a triathlete, entrepreneur, wife, mother and solo world traveler. Yet her biggest victory took place in 2017 when she fought her way out of her 30-year dependence on doctor-prescribed opiates.…