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Elaine Russell
Welcome to website of
Elaine Russell
Author of Historical Fiction
and Children's Books
Upcoming Events: Presentations on When The Tamarind Tree Blooms
Friday, October 24, 2025 - 3 - 4 p.m.
Renaissance Forum
California State University Sacramento,
Mariposa Hall, Room 1001
Saturday, December 13, 2025 - 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Sacramento Chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW)
North Ridge Country Club
7600 Madison Avenue, Fair Oaks, CA
Elaine's latest release
Geneviève Dubois, half-Lao/half-French, turns eighteen and leaves the French orphanage where she has been trapped for fourteen unhappy years. She is determined to uncover the story of her parents and locate her missing twin brother. Stepping into the deeply divided world of 1931 French colonial Laos, she finds neither French colons nor native Lao readily accept her mixed heritage. Even falling in love is fraught with the cultural restrictions of two dissonant societies. Where does she fit in?
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