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SUMMARY:Katie Crouch and Rachel Levin
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, SEPTEMBER 23 AT 6PM PT WHEN KATIE CROUCH DISCUSSES HER LATEST NOVEL\, THE EMBASSY WIFE\, WITH RACHEL LEVIN AT 9TH AVE! \nMasks Required for In-Person Event\nJoin us online by registering at the link below \nZoom Registration\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o3CKo2AqQ1GQEyWEmWdivA \nPraise for Embassy Wife\n“One of the novel’s greatest strengths is the omniscient third-person narration that oscillates focus between main and minor characters. The structure helps heighten the tension between characters\, the past and the present\, and Namibians and Americans. In addition to sketching complex characters with rich backstories\, Crouch excels at moving the plot forward while not missing any opportunity to observe the human condition. With wit and tenderness\, the novel explores the complicated nature of race\, power\, marriage\, colonization\, diplomacy\, and community. A sharp\, funny\, page-turning romp.” – Kirkus Reviews \n“Crouch’s…knowledge of expat life adds realism to this observant\, funny satire. Unpredictable twists lead to an ending where everyone may not get what they want\, but they get what they need. Suggest this one to fans of Meg Wolitzer and Maria Semple.” – Booklist  \n“Katie Crouch is an incredible writer – deft\, fearless\, super-smart and compassionate – and EMBASSYWIFE is one of the funniest\, sharpest\, most insightful novels I’ve read in a long time. It’s also a flat-out page-turner: I read it in a single\, feverish sitting; then again\, a second time\, trying to figure out how she pulled off such an intricately constructed narrative that manages to read so effortlessly. A tremendous novel by a writer who surprises and moves us with each new book. I can’t recommend this novel highly enough.”—Molly Antopol\, author of The UnAmericans \n“Keenly observed and expertly crafted\, Katie Crouch’s EMBASSY WIFE is a wickedly irresistible novel.”—Natalie Baszile\, author of Queen Sugar \nAbout Embassy Wife\nAmanda Evans is a trailing spouse: she has just arrived in Namibia\, mere weeks after giving up her lucrative Silicon Valley job\, as her husband\, Mark\, has accepted a Fulbright. Their marriage\, which seemed solid in the safety of home\, feels tenuous in the glaring heat of the Kalahari\, and when their daughter becomes involved an international conflict\, lines are drawn in the sand. \nMeanwhile\, Persephone Wilder is the wife of an American diplomat already stationed in Namibia. She takes her job as an Embassy Wife seriously\, and employs an intricate set of rules to navigate such problems as: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin\, how not to look drunk at embassy functions\, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. However\, she suspects her husband may not actually the ambassador’s general counsel\, but in fact\, a secret agent in the CIA. Despite Persephone’s personal issues\, she is ever the embassy wife\, and graciously takes the new trailing spouse\, Amanda under her wing. \nBut once Amanda\, Mark and their daughter settle into the sub-Saharan desert\, it becomes clear that Mark\, who lived in Namibia two decades earlier\, had other reasons for returning to African soil. Mark\, it seems\, has unfinished business from twenty years prior\, and this journey is actually a quest to find a woman he left behind. \nPropulsive and provocative\, subversive\, smart and funny\, EMBASSY WIFE compellingly explores the limits of human resiliency and loyalty\, asking: How far will Amanda go to keep her family intact? How much corruptness can Persephone purposefully ignore? \nAnd what\, exactly\, does it mean to be an American abroad when you don’t like your country anymore? \nAbout Katie Crouch\nKatie Crouch is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Girls in Trucks. She is also the author of Men and Dogs\, Abroad and the YA series The Magnolia League. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, McSweeney’s\, Tin House\, Slate\, and Salon. A MacDowell Fellow\, she teaches at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katie-crouch-and-rachel-levin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Richard Powers
DESCRIPTION:Discusses his new novel\, Bewilderment\n\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, September 23\, 2021 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrowdcast\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets:\n\nSliding scale ($0-$100)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with Diesel\, a Bookstore and Vroman’s Bookstore\, we present Richard Powers\, who will discuss Bewilderment (W.W. Norton)\, his highly anticipated follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize winning The Overstory. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTRATION INFO COMING SOON \nAbout Bewilderment\nLonglisted for the 2021 Booker Prize \nA heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. \nNamed one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by New York Magazine\, Chicago Tribune\, BookPage\, Literary Hub\, The Millions\, New Statesman\, and Times of London \nThe astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old\, Robin\, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm\, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He’s also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled\, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin’s emotional control\, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother’s brain… \nWith its soaring descriptions of the natural world\, its tantalizing vision of life beyond\, and its account of a father and son’s ferocious love\, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers’s most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful\, imperiled planet? \nAbout Richard Powers\nRichard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His most recent book\, The Overstory\, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-powers-2/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Max Chafkin on Thiel's Pursuit of Power
DESCRIPTION:RSVP \n“Whether you admire him or fear him\, Peter Thiel’s influence has been undeniable. In this deeply reported and gripping biography\, Max Chafkin reveals the lessons behind Thiel’s rise. It offers essential insights for anyone who wants to understand what Silicon Valley’s global ascendance has wrought—and it’s a really great read.”—Charles Duhigg\, author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better \nFew have done more to shape Silicon Valley than Peter Thiel. The billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur has been a behind-the-scenes operator influencing countless aspects of the contemporary way of life\, from technologies we use daily to the delicate power dynamic between Silicon Valley\, Wall Street\, and Washington. Despite his power and the ubiquity of his projects\, no public figure is quite so mysterious. \nIn the first major biography of Peter Thiel\, Bloomberg reporter Max Chafkin traces the trajectory of the tech giant’s life and worldview\, including his upbringing as the child of immigrant parents\, his years at Stanford as a conservative thought leader\, the founding of PayPal and Palantir\, early investment in Facebook and SpaceX\, and his relationships with fellow tech titans Mark Zuckerberg\, Elon Musk\, and Eric Schmidt. The Contrarian shows the extent to which Thiel has spread his values to corridors of power far beyond Silicon Valley\, including funding the lawsuit that destroyed the blog Gawker and strenuously backing far-right political candidates—notably Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016. \nIn conversation with Emily Chang\, the Emmy-award winning business journalist and a Bloomberg anchor you may recognize from her cameo appearances on HBO’s Silicon Valley\, Chafkin shares the insights from this deeply reported biography. Tune in for the eye-opening view of a business leader whose rise\, like the rise of Silicon Valley\, has proven both thrilling and fraught with controversy. How well do you know the leaders of the digital age? \n*We encourage you to join with a book or donation to support the production of this event and make it possible for us to continue bringing you great conversations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/max-chafkin-on-thiels-pursuit-of-power/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay,Virtual
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