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SUMMARY:Non-Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Sapiens by Yuval Harari\nOne hundred thousand years ago\, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods\, nations\, and human rights; to trust money\, books\, and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy\, timetables\, and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? \nIn Sapiens\, Professor Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history\, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical–and sometimes devastating–breakthroughs of the cognitive\, agricultural\, and scientific revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology\, anthropology\, paleontology\, and economics\, and incorporating full-color illustrations throughout the text\, Harari explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies\, the animals and plants around us\, and even our personalities. Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behavior from the legacy of our ancestors? And what\, if anything\, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come? \nBold\, wide-ranging\, and provocative\, Sapiens integrates history and science to challenge everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts\, our actions\, our heritage…and our future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/non-fiction-discussion-group/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:R.O. Kwon presents THE INCENDIARIES (w/ Nayomi Munaweera)
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is very excited to welcome one of our dear friends\, R.O. Kwon to discuss her debut novel\, The Incendiaries\, on Tuesday\, August 14th at 7pm. Joining her in conversation tonight is Nayomi Munaweera (What Lies Between Us). \nFirst … check out this advance praise! \n“The Incendiaries is a God-haunted\, willful\, strange book written with a kind of savage elegance. I’ve said it before\, but now I’ll shout it from the rooftops: R. O. Kwon is the real deal.” —Lauren Groff\, author ofFates and Furies and Florida \n“Every explosive requires a fuse. That’s R. O. Kwon’s novel\, a straight\, slow-burning fuse. To read her novel is to follow an inexorable flame coming closer and closer to the object it will detonate—the characters\, the crime\, the story\, and\, ultimately\, the reader.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees \n“The Incendiaries probes the seductive and dangerous places to which we drift when loss unmoors us. In dazzlingly acrobatic prose\, R. O. Kwon explores the lines between faith and fanaticism\, passion and violence\, the rational and the unknowable.” —Celeste Ng\, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You  \nA powerful\, darkly glittering novel about violence\, love\, faith\, and loss\, as a young Korean American woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea. \nPhoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn’t tell anyone she blames herself for her mother’s recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college\, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. \nGrieving and guilt-ridden\, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group–a secretive extremist cult–founded by a charismatic former student\, John Leal. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe’s Korean American family. Meanwhile\, Will struggles to confront the fundamentalism he’s tried to escape\, and the obsession consuming the one he loves. When the group bombs several buildings in the name of faith\, killing five people\, Phoebe disappears. Will devotes himself to finding her\, tilting into obsession himself\, seeking answers to what happened to Phoebe and if she could have been responsible for this violent act. \nThe Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists\, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nR. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Guardian\, Vice\, Buzzfeed\, Time\, Noon\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, and elsewhere. She has received awards from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, the Steinbeck Center\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she has lived most of her life in the United States. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, August 13\, 2018 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-o-kwon-presents-the-incendiaries-w-nayomi-munaweera/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Paula Saunders\, The Distance Home
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Paula Saunders for a reading and signing of her riveting novel\, The Distance Home. This event is part of our Debuts of Summer series. \nIn the years after World War II\, the bleak yet beautiful plains of South Dakota still embody all the contradictions–the ruggedness and the promise–of the old frontier. This is a place where you can eat strawberries from wild vines\, where lightning reveals a boundless horizon\, where descendants of white settlers and native Indians continue to collide; and where\, for most\, there are limited options. \nRené shares a home\, a family\, and a passion for dance with her older brother\, Leon. Yet for all they have in common\, their lives are on remarkably different paths. In contrast to René\, a born spitfire\, Leon is a gentle soul. The only boy in their ballet class\, Leon silently endures often brutal teasing. Meanwhile\, René excels at everything she touches\, basking in the delighted gaze of their father\, whom Leon seems to disappoint no matter how hard he tries. \nAs the years pass\, René and Leon’s parents fight with increasing frequency–and ferocity. Their father–a cattle broker–spends more time on the road\, his sporadic homecomings both yearned for and dreaded by the children. And as René and Leon grow up\, they grow apart. They grasp whatever they can to stay afloat–a word of praise\, a grandmother’s outstretched hand\, the seductive attention of a stranger–as René works to save herself\, crossing the border into a larger\, more hopeful world\, while Leon embarks on a path of despair and self-destruction. \nTender\, searing\, and unforgettable\, The Distance Home is a profoundly American story spanning decades–a tale of haves and have-nots\, of how our ideas of winning and losing\, success and failure\, lead us inevitably into various problems with empathy and caring for one another. It’s a portrait of beauty and brutality in which the author’s compassionate narration allows us to sympathize\, in turn\, with everyone involved. \nPaula Saunders grew up in Rapid City\, South Dakota. She is a graduate of the Syracuse University creative writing program\, and was awarded a postgraduate Albert Schweitzer Fellowship at the State University of New York at Albany\, under then-Schweitzer chair Toni Morrison. She lives in California with her husband. They have two grown daughters. \n“Paula Saunders has given us a riveting family saga for the ages. The Distance Home is fresh\, with a seductive Midwestern innocence\, though the book’s outwardly ideal clan holds dark secrets that kept me turning pages into the wee hours. This is one of the best books I’ve read in years–destined to become a classic.” –Mary Karr \n\nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the start time of the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paula-saunders-the-distance-home/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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