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SUMMARY:Eowyn Ivey
DESCRIPTION:In the winter of 1885\, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedition that has been deemed impossible: to venture up the Wolverine River and pierce the vast\, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie\, his newly pregnant wife\, Colonel Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn’t return–once he passes beyond the edge of the known world\, there’s no telling what awaits him. \nThe Wolverine River Valley is not only breathtaking and forbidding but also terrifying in ways that the colonel and his men never could have imagined. As they map the territory and gather information on the native tribes\, whose understanding of the natural world is unlike anything they have ever encountered\, Forrester and his men discover the blurred lines between human and wild animal\, the living and the dead. And while the men knew they would face starvation and danger\, they cannot escape the sense that some greater\, mysterious force threatens their lives. \nMeanwhile\, on her own at Vancouver Barracks\, Sophie chafes under the social restrictions and yearns to travel alongside her husband. She does not know that the winter will require as much of her as it does her husband\, that both her courage and faith will be tested to the breaking point. Can her exploration of nature through the new art of photography help her to rediscover her sense of beauty and wonder? \nIn To the Bright Edge of the World\, the truths that Allen and Sophie discover over the course of that fateful year change both of their lives — and the lives of those who hear their stories long after they’re gone — forever. \nEowyn LeMay Ivey was raised in Alaska and continues to live there with her husband and two daughters. She received her BA in journalism and minor in creative writing through the honors program at Western Washington University\, studied creative nonfiction at the University of Alaska Anchorage graduate program\, and worked for nearly 10 years as an award-winning reporter at the Frontiersman newspaper. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Snow Child.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eowyn-ivey/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Micah Perks
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the launch of this wonderfully consuming new novel from local author\, professor\, and co-director of UCSC’s creative writing program Micah Perks. Following a near-fatal accident\, Evie\, a mild-mannered\, pregnant school teacher\, abandons her controlling husband and flees California for the wilds of western New York. She rents a farm house on a dead end road in a close-knit community that is divided by local colonial history\, a story that goes deep to the roots of the American conscience—and when she begins teaching at the local high school\, Evie herself becomes obsessed with The Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson\, the first book written by a woman in the Americas that details Rowlandson’s captivity during King Philip’s War in the seventeenth century. As Mary Rowlandson’s insatiable hunger begins to fill Evie’s dreams\, Evie wonders if she may actually be haunted. At the same time\, Evie’s connections to her new community begin to simmer\, and as she grows more pregnant\, her desires and hunger grow out of control\, threatening to destroy her new world. Ten years in the making\,What Becomes Us will hold you to the last page with its unforgettable cast and story. \n\n“Micah Perks’ book has everything a reader could hope for — her language is lively\, her characters appealing. Set in a storied landscape\, with themes of independence and community. Romance! History! Food! Plus a tale to tell and some surprising people to tell it. There is real magic here. Micah magic! Completely original\, completely delightful.”  –Karen Joy Fowler\, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves \n“I’ve been obsessed with Mary Rowlandson for 20 years\, and was delighted to find that Micah Perks writes about her with fireworks. This is a warm\, wild\, hilarious\, eccentric and moving book.”  –Lauren Groff\, author of Fates and Furies and Arcadia \n\nMicah Perks grew up in a log cabin on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of a novel\, We Are Gathered Here\, a memoir\, Pagan Time\, and a long personal essay\, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed\, My Daughter and Me. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. Excerpts of What Becomes Us won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and The New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/micah-perks/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Josefine Klougart
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Josefine Klougart: \n“Scandinavia now has its own Virginia Woolf. Few get as close to the human mind as Klougart.” —VG \n  \nAbout One of Us is Sleeping: \nThe English-language debut from one of Denmark’s most exciting\, celebrated young writers\, “One of Us Is Sleeping “is a haunting novel about loss in all its forms.\nWorking in the vein of Anne Carson\, Josefine Klougart’s novel is both true-to-life and incredibly poetic in its relating of a brief\, intense love affair and the grief and disillusionment that follow its end. While she recounts the time with her lover\, the narrator is also heading back home\, where her mother is dying of cancer. This contrast between recollection and the belief that certain things will always be present in your life your parents\, your childhood home\, your love and the fact that life is a continual series of endings runs throughout the book\, underpinning the striking imagery and magnificent prose.\nA powerful novel that earned Klougart numerous accolades and several award nominations including the Readers Book Award “One of Us Is Sleeping “marks the launch of a major new voice in world literature.\nJosefine Klougart has been hailed as one of Denmark’s greatest contemporary writers. She is the first Danish author ever to have two of her first three books nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. She’s been compared to a range of authors\, including Joan Didion\, Anne Carson\, and Virginia Woolf.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josefine-klougart/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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