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Having written several books in Prague and Istanbul, James Tressler revisits his youth on California's Lost Coast in his new novel, "Somewhere Near Centerville." "Somewhere Near Centerville" is a coming of age story and personal reflection on living in California in the 1990s and at turn of the millennium. It is also an odyssey, racing breathlessly up and down Highway 101 from Eureka to San Francisco, to San Diego and beyond. Frantic, rowdy, at times sobering, "Somewhere Near Centerville" is at its heart about reconnecting with the past, with lost people and lost places.