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SUMMARY:Peter Heller
DESCRIPTION:From Peter Heller\, the bestselling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter\, comes Celine\, a luminous\, masterful novel of suspense and the story of an elegant\, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families\, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past. \nWorking out of her jewel box of an apartment at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge\, Celine has made a career of tracking down missing persons\, and she has a better record at it than the FBI. But when a young woman\, Gabriela\, asks for her help\, a world of mystery and sorrow opens up. Gabriela’s father was a photographer who went missing on the border of Montana and Wyoming. He was assumed to have died from a grizzly mauling\, but his body was never found. Now\, as Celine and her partner head to Yellowstone National Park\, investigating a trail gone cold\, it becomes clear that they are being followed—that this is a case someone desperately wants to keep closed. Combining the exquisite plotting and gorgeous evocation of nature that have become his hallmark\, with a wildly engrossing story of family\, privilege\, and childhood loss\, Peter Heller gives us his finest work to date. \nPeter Heller is the bestselling author of The Painter and The Dog Stars. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in both fiction and poetry. An award-winning adventure writer and a longtime contributor to NPR\, Heller is a contributing editor at Outside magazine\, Men’s Journal\, and National Geographic Adventure\, and a regular contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek. He is also the author of several nonfiction books\, including Kook\, The Whale Warriors\, and Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet’s Tsangpo River. He lives in Denver\, Colorado.
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LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Asya Abdrahman\, Faith Adiele + Tonya M. Foster
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of International Women’s Day and in collaboration with the Museum of the African Diaspora\, memoirist and travel writer Faith Adiele\, poet and essayist Tonya Foster\, and visual artist Asya Abdrahman will discuss the ways they make place and navigate the literary\, artistic and academic worlds in which they live and work. The event will include readings by the authors and offer opportunities for visual and literary artists to respond to each other’s work. The event takes place within in the context of the current MoAD exhibition\, Where Is Here\, curated by Jacqueline Francis and Kathy Zarur. Admission: $10 General | $5 Student/Senior | Free for MoAD Members and SFSU Students \nAsya Abdrahman is a San Francisco-based mixed media and installation artist who considers the intersection of cultural identity\, human rights and the environment in her work. Of Somali\, Eritrean\, and Ethiopian heritages\, she fled her East African homeland during a time of regional wars. Abdrahman’s work promotes cultural and ecological survival\, advanced through her use of human\, natural\, found\, and recycled resources. In addition to exhibiting her art throughout the Bay Area\, Abdrahman is the founder of Pay It Forward (PIF) Gallery in Oakland. She regularly produces and curates exhibitions at the historic Red Vic and contributes art and writing to Women Eco Artists Dialog. Her work is featured at MoAD in the current exhibition Where Is Here. \nFaith Adiele was raised in the Pacific Northwest\, and earned two MFAs from writing programs at the University of Iowa. She is the author of the travel memoir Meeting Faith\, which won the PEN Open Book Award\, and co-editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology. She’s completing a mixed-media family history inspired by My Journey Home\, her PBS documentary about finding her Nigerian family\, and her ebook/audiobook\, The Nigerian-Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems. She is an Associate Professor at California College of the Arts and teaches at The Writers’ Grotto and VONA/Voices\, where she launched the nation’s first writing workshop for travelers of color. Adiele lives in Oakland and runs a monthly African Book Club. Visit her at adiele.com and @meetingfaith. \nTonya M. Foster was born in Bloomington\, Illinois and raised in New Orleans.  She holds an MFA from the University of Houston. She is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna*\, 2015) and co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her work has appeared in Callaloo\, MiPoiesis\, NYFA Arts Quarterly\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York\, Foster is an Assistant Professor of Writing & Literature and Graduate Writing at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/asya-abdrahman-faith-adiele-tonya-m-foster/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Two Line Press Reading
DESCRIPTION:A Night of Literature in Translation with Two Lines \nJoin us for an evening of literature at Amado’s\, in the Mission District in San Francisco! \nThe night will include music\, conversation\, and live readings from Issues 25 and 26. We’ll provide snacks and a cash bar. You’ll also get a chance to meet Two Lines staff and hear more about upcoming issues of the journal\, and grab a sneak peek at our forthcoming book. \nAll proceeds support Two Lines Press. Your $10/$15 ticket includes a free issue of the journal. Check back for ticket purchase details.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-line-press-reading/
LOCATION:Amado’s\, 998 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Thi Bui
DESCRIPTION:Debut author Thi Bui discusses her intimate and poignant graphic memoir portraying one family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam. Join us at Pegasus Books Downtown for the book launch of one of 2017’s most anticipated graphic novel releases. \nAbout the Book \nThis beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family\, Bui documents the story of her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s\, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves. \nAt the heart of Bui’s story is a universal struggle: While adjusting to life as a first-time mother\, she ultimately discovers what it means to be a parent—the endless sacrifices\, the unnoticed gestures\, and the depths of unspoken love. Despite how impossible it seems to take on the simultaneous roles of both parent and child\, Bui pushes through. With haunting\, poetic writing and breathtaking art\, she examines the strength of family\, the importance of identity\, and the meaning of home. \nIn what Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen calls “a book to break your heart and heal it\,” The Best We Could Do brings to life Thi Bui’s journey of understanding\, and provides inspiration to all of those who search for a better future while longing for a simpler past. \nPRAISE \n“A powerful and intimate look at the modern immigrant experience in America.”\n— ICv2 \nThi Bui’s stark\, compelling memoir is about an ordinary family\, but her story delivers the painful truth that most Vietnamese of the 20th century know in an utterly personal fashion—that history is found in the marrow of one’s bones\, ready to be passed on through blood\, through generations\, through feelings. A book to break your heart and heal it.\n— Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-thi-bui/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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