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SUMMARY:Sugartown Voices
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Bonnie Thomas: Sun on the Rind • Chantal Guillemin: Truchas: Closer to Heaven • Gail Peterson: Swimming the Sky • Kimberly Saterfield:Voices from the Field. On guitar: Barry Ebner. Curated by Leila Rae. An open mic follows the featured readers. Free Drawing: Book\, Broadside\, and Spice Monkey Gift Card. Book Table.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sugartown-voices/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Russ Franklin w/ Adam Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Cosmic Hotel is Russ Franklin’s quirky yet touching novel that follows Sandeep Sanghavi\, the son of an Indian businesswoman and a famous eccentric astronomer named Van Ray. Sandeep lives a nomadic life staying at different hotels across America with his mother and her hotel consulting firm. After not seeing them for many years\, Van Ray shows up broke with his pregnant astronaut ex-wife in tow\, claiming to have discovered a big secret that will change their lives. Sandeep must juggle his father’s scientific search\, his mother’s failing business\, and the tension of having family all together for the first time in decades. \nRuss Franklin has degrees in math\, physics\, and literature\, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University\, as well as a Kingsbury Fellow at Florida State University. His work has appeared in Oxford American\, Alaska Quarterly Review\,Greensboro Review and other publications. He currently teaches writing at Florida State University in Tallahassee. \nAdam Johnson is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Orphan Master’s Son and the National Book Award winning short story collection Fortune Smiles . He teaches creative writing at Stanford University. His fiction has appeared in Esquire\, The Paris Review\, Harper’s\, Tin House\, Granta\, and Playboy\, as well as The Best American Short Stories. His other works include Emporium\, a short-story collection\, and the novel Parasites Like Us. He lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/russ-franklin-w-adam-johnson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yaa Gyasi Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Yaa Gyasi reads from her highly touted debut novel\, Homegoing\, at this book launch party. \n\nPraise for Homegoing: \n\n“A marvelous novel.” — Publishers Weekly *starred review* \n\n“Gyasi’s characters are so fully realized\, so elegantly carved—very often I found myself longing to hear more. Craft is essential given the task Gyasi sets for herself—drawing not just a lineage of two sisters\, but two related peoples. Gyasi is deeply concerned with the sin of selling humans on Africans\, not Europeans. But she does not scold. She does not excuse. And she does not romanticize. The black Americans she follows are not overly virtuous victims.  Sin comes in all forms\, from selling people to abandoning children.  I think I needed to read a book like this to remember what is possible.  I think I needed to remember what happens when you pair a gifted literary mind to an epic task. Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates\, National Book Award winning author of Between the World and Me \n\n“Homegoing is a remarkable feat—a novel at once epic and intimate\, capturing the moral weight of history as it bears down on individual struggles\, hopes\, and fears. A tremendous debut.” —Phil Klay\, National Book Award winning author of Redeployment \n\n\nAbout Homegoing: \n\nA riveting\, kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: a novel about race\, history\, ancestry\, love\, and time that traces the descendants of two sisters torn apart in eighteenth-century Africa across three hundred years in Ghana and America. \n  \nTwo half sisters\, Effia and Esi\, unknown to each other\, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and will live in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle\, raising children who will be sent abroad to be educated before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the empire. Esi\, imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle’s women’s dungeon and then shipped off on a boat bound for America\, will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the wars of Ghana to slavery and the Civil War in America\, from the coal mines in the American South to the Great Migration to twentieth-century Harlem\, Yaa Gyasi’s novel moves through histories and geographies and captures–with outstanding economy and force– the troubled spirit of our own nation. She has written a modern masterpiece.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yaa-gyasi-book-launch/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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