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SUMMARY:Smut: An Unseemly Story (The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson)
DESCRIPTION:One of England’s finest and most loved writers\, Alan Bennett\, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson\, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students\, and renting out her spare room. Quiet\, middle-class\, and middle-aged\, Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover that she rather enjoys role-play at the hospital\, and the irregular and startling entertainment provided by her tenants.A master storyteller dissects a very English form of secrecy with this story of the unexpected in otherwise apparently ordinary lives.  Directed by Amy Kossow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smut-an-unseemly-story-the-greening-of-mrs-donaldson/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kevin Kwan: Rich People Problems
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Kwan\, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend\, is back with an uproarious new novel of a family riven by fortune\, an ex-wife driven psychotic with jealousy\, a battle royal fought through couture gown sabotage\, and the heir to one of Asia’s greatest fortunes locked out of his inheritance. \nWhen Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother\, Su Yi\, is on her deathbed\, he rushes to be by her bedside—but he’s not alone. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim on their matriarch’s massive fortune. With each family member vying to inherit Tyersall Park—a trophy estate on 64 prime acres in the heart of Singapore—Nicholas’s childhood home turns into a hotbed of speculation and sabotage. As her relatives fight over heirlooms\, Astrid Leong is at the center of her own storm\, desperately in love with her old sweetheart Charlie Wu\, but tormented by her ex-husband—a man hell bent on destroying Astrid’s reputation and relationship. Meanwhile Kitty Pong\, married to China’s second richest man\, billionaire Jack Bing\, still feels second best next to her new step-daughter\, famous fashionista Colette Bing. \nRich People Problems is a sweeping novel that takes us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea\, from a kidnapping at Hong Kong’s most elite private school to a surprise marriage proposal at an Indian palace\, caught on camera by the telephoto lenses of paparazzi. Kevin Kwan’s hilarious\, gloriously wicked new novel reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia’s most privileged families and their rich people problems. \nKevin Kwan is the author of the international bestsellers Crazy Rich Asians\, soon to be a major motion picture\, and China Rich Girlfriend. Born in Singapore\, he has called New York’s West Village home since 1995.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-kwan-rich-people-problems/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170608T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170608T210000
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nThis month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-3/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi: Kintu
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi to the store to discuss and sign Kintu\, on Thursday\, June 8th at 7:00 pm. She will be in conversation with DIESEL bookseller Aaron Bady\, who also wrote the introduction. \nFirst published in Kenya in 2014 to critical and popular acclaim\, Kintu is a modern classic\, a multilayered narrative that reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. Divided into six sections\, the novel begins in 1750\, when Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda Kingdom. Along the way\, he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. In an ambitious tale of a clan and a nation\, Makumbi weaves together the stories of Kintu’s descendants as they seek to break from the burden of their shared past and reconcile the inheritance of tradition and the modern world that is their future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-nansubuga-makumbi-kintu/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Laleh Khadivi
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Micheline Aharonian Marcom  \ncelebrating the release of \nA Good Country \nBy Laleh Khadivi \nfrom Bloomsbury Publishing \nA timely novel about the radicalization of a Muslim teen in California–about where identity truly lies\, and how we find it. \nLaguna Beach\, California\, 2010. Alireza Courdee\, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz\, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale\, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity\, takes up surfing\, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time\, Reza–now Rez–feels like an American teen. Life is smooth; even lying to his strict parents comes easily. \nBut then he changes again\, falling out with the bad boy surfers and in with a group of kids more awake to the world around them\, who share his background\, and whose ideas fill him with a very different sense of purpose. Within a year\, Reza and his girlfriend are making their way to Syria to be part of a Muslim nation rising from the ashes of the civil war. \nTimely\, nuanced\, and emotionally forceful\, A Good Country is a gorgeous meditation on modern life\, religious radicalization\, and a young man caught among vastly different worlds. What we are left with at the dramatic end is not an assessment of good or evil\, east versus west\, but a lingering question that applies to all modern souls: Do we decide how to live\, or is our life decided for us? \nLaleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan\, Iran\, in 1977. In the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution her family fled\, finally settling in Canada and then the United States. Khadivi received her MFA from Mills College and was a Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction at Emory University. In 2008 she received The Whiting Writers’ Award. In 2009 she published her first novel The Age of Orphans. Laleh Khadivi lives in California. \nMicheline Aharonian Marcom  is the author of five books including the critically acclaimed trilogy of novels: Three Apples Fell from Heaven (2001)\, The Daydreaming Boy (2004) which earned her the 2004 Lannan Literary Fellowship as well as the 2005 PEN/USA Award for Fiction\, and Draining the Sea (2008). She currently teaches Creative Writing at Mills College and is also on the faculty of the Goddard College MFA in Creative Writing Program. \n  \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laleh-khadivi/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Andrew Shvarts
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of Royal Bastards by local author Andrew Shvarts whose action-packed debut champions diversity\, counsels perseverance\, and highlights the human cost of war. Think Game of Thrones meets The Breakfast Club. Andrew will be in conversation with Tara Sim\, author of Timekeeper
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-shvarts/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: Arrivals
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words (WTAW) on June 8th\, 2017\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as seven acclaimed authors explore the theme Arrivals. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. Entry fee is $10 at the door\, though donations to WTAW\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit\, are always welcome. \nReaders: Elaine Fletcher Chapman\, Barbara Edelman\, Rachel Hall\, Toni Mirosevich\, Lisa Rizzo\, Andrew Roe\, and Renate Stendhal.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-arrivals/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Jenny Forrester + Ariel Gore
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Forrester in conversation with Ariel Gore about her memoir\, Narrow River\, Wide Sky \n\nPraise for Jenny Forester \n\nNarrow River\, Wide Sky unwrites the story of family and America through the flutter of hearts beating or beaten up\, through a skull on the piano\, through the desert of our longings into the river of our sorrow—or is it hope\, or maybe love\, that keeps us alive in spite of ourselves. Jenny Forrester has hit the mother lode. –-Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of The Chronology of Water and The Small Backs of Children \n\nForrester’s debut memoir is a lyrical account of coming of age as a woman in the West. Amid urgent geography\, aching choices\, and uncertain faith\, Forrester explores the moments and forces that hold us together and shape our lives. This family flickers on the page like a constellation; Forrester is both a star unto herself and an inextricable part of the glowing whole. — Megan Kruse\, author of Call Me Home \n\nA taut memoir about coming of age in the middle of nowhere where there are no minor decisions. Narrow River\, Wide Sky is a haunting\, intimate visit to the unforgiving landscape of life. –-Mark Russell\, author of God Is Disappointed in You and Apocrypha Now \n\n\nAbout Narrow River\, Wide Sky \n\nOn the Colorado Plateau between slot canyons and rattlesnakes\, Jenny Forrester grew up with her mother and brother in a single-wide trailer proudly displaying an American flag. Forrester’s powerfully eloquent story reveals a rural small town comprising God-fearing Republicans\, ranchers\, Mormons\, and Native Americans. With sensitivity and resilience\, Forrester navigates feelings of isolation\, an abusive boyfriend\, sexual assault\, and a failed college attempt to forge a separate identity. As young adults\, after their mother’s accidental death\, Forrester and her brother are left with an increasingly strained relationship that becomes a microcosm of America’s political landscape. Narrow River\, Wide Sky is a breathtaking\, determinedly truthful story about one woman’s search for identity within the mythology of family and America itself.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-forrester-ariel-gore/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Thad Carhart
DESCRIPTION:Thad Carhart reads from his delightful memoir\, Finding Fontainebleau: An American Boy in France\, just out in paperback. \n\n\n\n\n“While bringing alive this redolent Gallic chapter of his boyhood (baguettes from the boulangerie; inkwells and laborious handwriting exercises at school)\, Mr. Carhart also resurrects the mood and mores of a particular window in time: the 1950s of Ike and Elvis’s America\, and postwar France. . . . Like the castle\, his memoir imaginatively and smoothly integrates multiple influences\, styles and whims.”–The New York Times \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor a young American boy in the 1950s\, Fontainebleau was a sight both strange and majestic\, home to a continual series of adventures: a different language to learn\, weekend visits to nearby Paris\, family road trips to Spain and Italy. Then there was the chateau itself: a sprawling palace once the residence of kings\, its grounds the perfect place to play hide-and-seek. The curiosities of the small town and the time with his family as expats left such an impression on him that thirty years later Carhart returned to France with his wife to raise their two children. Touring Fontainebleau again as an adult\, he began to appreciate its influence on French style\, taste\, art\, and architecture. Each trip to Fontainebleau introduces him to entirely new aspects of the chateau’s history\, enriching his memories and leading him to Patrick Ponsot\, the head of the chateau’s restoration\, who becomes Carhart’s guide to the hidden Fontainebleau. \nWhat emerges is an intimate chronicle of a time and place few have experienced. In warm\, precise prose\, Carhart reconstructs the wonders of his childhood as an American in postwar France\, attending French schools with his brothers and sisters. His firsthand account brings to life nothing less than France in the 1950s\, from the parks and museums of Paris to the rigors of French schooling to the vast chateau of Fontainebleau and its village\, built\, piece by piece\, over many centuries. Finding Fontainebleau is for those captivated by the French way of life\, for armchair travelers\, and for anyone who has ever fallen in love with a place they want to visit over and over again. \nThe son of an air force officer\, Thad Carhart grew up in a variety of places\, including Washington\, D.C.; Fontainebleau\, France; Minneapolis; Amherst\, Massachusetts; and Tokyo. After graduating from Yale\, he worked for the State Department as an interpreter. He is also the author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank and Across the Endless River\, a historical novel. He lives in Paris.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thad-carhart/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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