WINTHROP — Sarah Braunstein of Portland will discuss her debut book, “The Sweet Relief of Missing Children,” on Tuesday, Aug. 23, at Bailey Public Library.

Her novel follows the meandering, intertwining stories of three young people who go missing.

Braunstein won the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award in 2007, and was named one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35,” which recognizes five young fiction writers chosen by National Book Award winners and finalists.

Her stories and essays have appeared in the Green Mountain Review, AGNI, Post Road, and on NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

Braunstein teaches at Harvard University Extension School and the Stanford Online Writer’s Studio. She is working on a second novel and a collection of essays.

The free discussion will begin at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 377-8673.