Tuesday, June 16th, 7pm, BookWoman, 5501 N. Lamar Blvd. #A-105

reading + signing: Ute Carson author of the novels: In Transit & Colt Tailing. Carson¹s latest book, In Transit, is the story of the heartbreaking consequences of damaged childhood trust and a touching attempt by two very different people to mend a broken bond.

You make a skittish colt follow, or tail, a calm one, to get him to cross a strange river. In Colt Tailing, we find Clara, at 55, a horsewoman, wife and mother, is menopausal – crossing from middle age into old age. She finds her body, her former trusted and reliable ally, failing her, suddenly and unpredictably. As the confidence and sense of self she had built up over many years are shaken, she is drawn back into the intense feelings of vulnerability first experienced during her fatherless youth in war-torn Germany.

Ute Maria Elisabeth Gräfin von Hardenberg-Carson was born on the Baltic Coast in Köslin, Pomerania, shortly after the beginning of World War II. As Russian forces swept toward central Europe, she fled westward with her mother and grandmother, settling in what was to become West Germany. There she went to school and attended the Universities of Hamburg and Mainz. Immigrating to America in 1962, she completed her masters at the University of Rochester, becoming a college instructor of German Language and Literature, and Women’s Studies. Carson has traveled the world and has lived in Germany, France, Scotland, New York, Vermont, and Florida. She now resides in Texas, with her husband. They have three daughters, four grandchildren, two horses, and a number of cats.