Mark Twain Library in Redding is hosting an author talk this weekend.  C.J.Hauser will discuss her newest novel Family of Origin.  She also plans to share her thoughts on creating strong narrators and give participants an exercise to do at home to help develop this in individual writing.  Copies of Family of Origin will be available for sale and signing at the event.  Hauser is originally from Redding and now teaches creative writing and literature at Colgate University.  The event Sunday is 2 to 3pm.  Family of Origin is an absurdist meditation on nature vs. nurture centered on estranged half siblings yoked together on a swampy Gulf Coast island after the unexpected death of their biologist father.