Author Night at Hubbell Library: Carla Seyler

A Place Unmade

This intricate tale of corporate intrigue and environmental consciousness takes the reader on a provocative journey into the dangers lurking in patentable genetics and the loss of biodiversity.

In A Place Unmade, Valentina Sorelli is a part-time graduate student and full-time marketing director of a community park in New Orleans. Jack Stillman is a corporate executive who hijacks his company’s research for personal gain, and he doesn’t care about the consequences. Their paths intersect when Valentina meets Jack’s son Sam, who becomes the link between the worlds of scientific discovery and corporate espionage.

As the story unfolds, Valentina and her classmates unite to try to stop Jack. They get a little help from a corporate whistleblower as well as the FBI. Valentina’s friendship with one of her classmates evolves into something more as they fight for their lives. 

Carla Seyler worked for years as a vocational rehabilitation counselor, when sometimes the truth was stranger than fiction. This is Carla's first novel, an imaginary disaster story that easily could be true. She is a native of New Orleans, a place that has been unmade by disasters both natural and engineered, but one that offers a master class in grace, patience, resilience, and joy. Carla lives in New Orleans with her husband and has two independent daughters.

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