Explora Books to Feature S. Naomi Main’s An American Girl at the 2026 Beijing International Book Fair
Explora Books will showcase An American Girl by S. Naomi Main at its exhibition booth at the 2026 Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), June 17–21, at the China National Convention Center. Written in the intimate, confessional voice of a woman looking back on the full sweep of her life, this faith-based narrative memoir follows Sharon and Mark Main from the moment they meet across a diner counter in Westminster, Maryland, in November 1968, through nearly fifty years of marriage that ends only when death parts them in 2019.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 21st May 2026 – The opening scene is quintessentially American: a shy girl working the counter at a popular burger joint and a self-assured soldier on leave before shipping out to Vietnam, who leaves a ten-dollar tip and asks if he ...
