A new novel is titled “Perris, California.” It’s by Rachel Stark ... rather than risk blurring her memories of Perris by returning. “I intentionally didn’t go back to Perris while ...

and so alive in my memories, that I wanted to be with that.” Stark’s “Perris, California,” set in 1999 with flashbacks to a decade earlier, follows Tessa, a 27-year-old mother of two who ...

(Photo by David Allen, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG) I had brought my copy of “Perris, California” to Perris ... and share any memories associated with them. To my delight, she agreed.