Regional Campus Calendar

David Bell, bestselling author and Western Kentucky University professor, discusses and signs Since She Went Away Tuesday, June 21, 6 PM, as part of the Authors at Your Library series. 

In Since She Went Away, Jenna Barton receives the text message from her lifelong best friend, Celia Walters, with a single request—‘Want to meet in the park at 12?’ She jumps at the chance to re-live some old high school fun but is running late for the meeting. Celia never arrives— and no one has since seen her. 

Three months later, the only piece of evidence in Celia’s disappearance is a lone diamond earring found where Celia and Jenna were planning to meet. The media has descended upon their small Kentucky town, dubbing Celia “The Diamond Mom,” and the police are no closer to finding out what 

happened since that unfortunate evening. It is as if Celia disappeared into thin air. Jenna, racked with guilt and hounded by a sensationalistic 

cable news personality, spends her down time obsessively scouring online message boards devoted to missing persons cases. No one is closer to finding Celia, and neither is Jenna closer to letting go of that horrible night.