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SUMMARY:LeAnne Howe + Marc Anthony Richardson
DESCRIPTION:Choctalking on Other Realities is the most recent book by novelist\, poet\, playwright and scholar LeAnne Howe (Choctaw). Her novels include Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story and Shell Shaker\, which won the Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Award. She is currently at work on a documentary film with Ojibwe filmmaker James M. Fortier about the life of Sequoyah\, a Cherokee leader and creator of the first written indigenous language in Native North American. Howe is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia and was awarded the inaugural 2014 MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures. \nIn her advance praise of Marc Anthony Richardson’s award-winning debut novel\, Year of the Rat\, Cristina García writes\, “…you must stop everything you’re doing right now and make time for it. Gorgeous\, unsparing\, heartbreaking\, the book is a prose poem of a testament to motherhood\, to manhood\, to lost generations\, to hope itself. ” Richardson is an artist and writer from Philadelphia and alum of the MFA program at Mills College. His awards include those from the Vermont Studio Center and Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leanne-howe-marc-anthony-richardson/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Riad Sattouf
DESCRIPTION:The highly anticipated continuation of Riad Sattouf’s internationally acclaimed\, #1 French bestseller\, which was hailed by The New York Times as a disquieting yet essential read. \nIn The Arab of the Future: Volume 1\, cartoonist Riad Sattouf tells of the first years of his childhood as his family shuttles back and forth between France and the Middle East. In Libya and Syria\, young Riad is exposed to the dismal reality of a life where food is scarce\, children kill dogs for sport\, and his cousins\, virulently anti-Semitic and convinced he is Jewish because of his blond hair\, lurk around every corner waiting to beat him up. \nIn Volume 2\, Riad\, now settled in his father’s hometown of Homs\, gets to go to school\, where he dedicates himself to becoming a true Syrian in the country of the dictator Hafez Al-Assad. Told simply yet with devastating effect\, Riad’s story takes in the sweep of politics\, religion\, and poverty\, but is steered by acutely observed small moments: the daily sadism of his schoolteacher\, the lure of the black market\, with its menu of shame and subsistence\, and the obsequiousness of his father in the company of those close to the regime. As his family strains to fit in\, one chilling\, barbaric act drives the Sattoufs to make the most dramatic of changes. \nDarkly funny and piercingly direct\, The Arab of the Future\, Volume 2 once again reveals the inner workings of a tormented country and family\, delivered through Riad Sattouf’s dazzlingly original talent. \nRiad Sattouf is a best-selling cartoonist and filmmaker who grew up in Syria and Libya and now lives in Paris. The author of four comics series in France and a former contributor to the satirical publicationCharlie Hebdo\, Sattouf is now a weekly columnist for l Obs. He also directed the films The French Kissers and Jacky in the Women’s Kingdom.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/riad-sattouf/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Susan Faludi w/ Peggy Orenstein
DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Susan Faludi discusses her transcendent and thought provoking memoir\, In the Darkroom. Susan Faludi’s father Steven abandoned her and her family when Susan was a teen. After 25 years of little to no contact Susan received an email from her father revealing that he had undergone sex reassignment surgery and that Steven was now Stephanie. So begins Susan Faludi’s extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga. Faludi’s struggle to come to grips with her father’s metamorphosis self takes her across borders historical\, political\, religious\, sexual–to bring her face to face with the question of the age: Is identity something you choose\, or is it the very thing you can’t escape? \nSusan will be in conversation with Peggy Orenstein\, New York Times-bestselling author of Cinderalla Ate My Daughter and Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-faludi-w-peggy-orenstein/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tessa Hadley
DESCRIPTION:Reads from her marvelous novel\, The Past\, in which three sisters\, a brother\, and their children assemble at their country house. These three weeks may be their last time there; the upkeep is prohibitive\, and they may be forced to sell this beloved house filled with memories of their shared past (their mother took them there to live when she left their father). Yet beneath the idyllic pastoral surface\, hidden passions\, devastating secrets\, and dangerous hostilities threaten to consume them. \n“Exquisite…. For anyone who cherishes Anne Tyler and Alice Munro\, the book offers similar deep pleasures. Like those North American masters of the domestic realm\, Hadley crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural…. Extraordinary.”—Ron Charles\, Washington Post \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, September 27\, 2016 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nOver the course of this summer holiday\, the family’s stories and silences intertwine\, small disturbances build into familial crises\, and a way of life—bourgeois\, literate\, ritualized\, Anglican—winds down to its inevitable end. \nWith subtle precision and deep compassion\, Hadley brilliantly evokes a brewing storm of lust and envy\, the indelible connections of memory and affection\, the fierce\, nostalgic beauty of the natural world\, and the shifting currents of history running beneath the surface of these seemingly steady lives. The result is a novel of breathtaking skill and scope that showcases this major writer’s extraordinary talents. \nTessa Hadley is the author of five highly praised novels: Accidents in the Home\,Everything Will Be All Right\, The Master Bedroom\,The London Train\, and Clever Girl. She is also the author of two short story collections\, Sunstroke and Married Love. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker. She lives in London.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tessa-hadley/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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