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Title: Sanctuary by Karen East on Display at Explora Books Hall 51 D59

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 20th Oct 2025 - Explora Books Ltd. presents Sanctuary, a new novel by Karen East, on display at Hall 5.1 D59 during the Frankfurter Buchmesse (October 15-19, 2025). The presentation highlights the novel's examination of corporate power, environmental decline, tightened security measures, and the search for alternative ways of living.Set in the mid-twenty-first century, Sanctuary follows Janet Ryan, a thirty-year-old reporter at the Minneapolis Herald. In a nation where major corporations exert decisive influence over government, environmental protections erode and travel outside local neighborhoods becomes suspect, Janet discovers a circle of people skeptical of official narratives. An unauthorized journey to northern Wisconsin brings Janet to an Ojibwe reservation where residents maintain traditional practices and communal survival.Karen East writes from a background in marriage and family therapy and long experience working with several Midwest tribes. That experience informs the novel's portrayal of ceremony, kinship, and practical strategies for sustaining community in an unhealthy environment. East is the mother of two children, grandmother to a grandson, and a great-grandmother to four great-grandchildren.Critical response highlights the book's timely perspective and cultural insight. "I enjoyed reading Sanctuary by Karen East. I've known her for a number of years and knew she was working on this. I was somewhat surprised, as I heard the book. I assumed it would be from the past and some present things. However, it went into the future (about 40 years from the modern day), and it is ironic how it affects the happenings occurring with COVID-19. In the larger cities and the precautions they have to have, just...

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