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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime WILDSTYLE
DESCRIPTION:will feature Kirsten Chen (Bury What We Cannot Take)\, Dickson Lam (Paper Sons)\, Peter Clarke (Apocryphal Pataphysics)\, Lisa Galloway\, and Lila Vasudevan. \nThe Thursday September 20th\, 7-9pm\, InsideStorytime at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, will feature Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar (The Map of Salt and Stars)\, Rita Bullwinkel (Belly Up)\, Kate Folk\, Steven Black\, and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-wildstyle/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ingrid Rojas Contreras presents FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Ingrid Rojas Contreras to discuss her novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree on Thursday\, August 16th at 7pm. \nSeven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogot \, but the threat of kidnappings\, car bombs\, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls\, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. \nWhen their mother hires Petrona\, a live-in-maid from the city’s guerrilla-occupied slum\, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona’s mysterious ways. But Petrona’s unusual behavior belies more than shyness. She is a young woman crumbling under the burden of providing for her family as the rip tide of first love pulls her in the opposite direction. As both girls’ families scramble to maintain stability amidst the rapidly escalating conflict\, Petrona and Chula find themselves entangled in a web of secrecy that will force them both to choose between sacrifice and betrayal. \nInspired by the author’s own life\, and told through the alternating perspectives of the willful Chula and the achingly hopeful Petrona\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree contrasts two very different\, but inextricable coming-of-age stories. In lush prose\, Rojas Contreras sheds light on the impossible choices women are often forced to make in the face of violence and the unexpected connections that can blossom out of desperation. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, Guernica\, and Huffington Post\, among others. She is the book columnist for KQED Arts\, the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ingrid-rojas-contreras-presents-fruit-of-the-drunken-tree/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Clifford Mae Henderson\, Perfect Little Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is pleased to present award-winning author Clifford Mae Henderson for a book discussion and signing of her new novel set in Santa Cruz during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake\, Perfect Little Worlds. \nLucy can’t hold the secret any longer. Twenty-six years ago\, her sister did the unthinkable. \nPortland\, Oregon\, 1989: Lucy Mustin\, living somewhat happily\, pumping out wedding cakes for starry-eyed heterosexuals while she\, a lesbian\, can’t legally marry\, is called upon to travel to Santa Cruz to help her autistic sister\, Alice\, care for their Alzheimer’s-afflicted mother. She knew the call was coming sooner or later. She’d just hoped it would be later. Mother issues. The possibility that resolution might be lost to dementia is a heartbreak she doesn’t feel like feeling. \nSanta Cruz\, California\, one week later: a trip to the family bakery ups the ante tenfold when the Loma Prieta/World Series Earthquake\, racking up a whopping 7.1 on the Richter scale\, traps the sisters below ground. There\, Alice reminds Lucy of a promise made to their mother many years ago\, a promise she plans to keep. \nClifford Mae Henderson\, also writing under the name Clifford Henderson\, was named after her grandmother Clifford who once wore a nightgown to a formal event because she liked it better than any of the dresses she could find. Clifford Mae has attempted to follow in her renegade grandmother’s footsteps\, spending as much time as possible trying to shake things up. Her novels have each garnered awards\, including a Foreword Review Book of the Year Award\, an Independent Publisher Book Award\, and a Golden Crown Literary Award. When not writing\, Clifford Mae and her life partner of over a quarter century run the Fun Institute\, an improv school in Northern California where they teach the art of collective pretending. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clifford-mae-henderson-perfect-little-worlds/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:John Copenhaver and Paddy Hirsch
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \nPaddy Hirsch and John Copenhaver discuss their new novels\, The Devil’s Half Mile and Dodging and Burning. \nAbout The Devil’s Half Mile \nSeven years after a financial crisis nearly toppled America\, traders chafe at government regulations\, racial tensions are rising\, gangs roam the streets and corrupt financiers make back-door deals with politicians… 1799 was a hell of a year. \n  \nThanks to Alexander Hamilton\, America has recovered from the panic on the Devil’s Half Mile (aka Wall Street)\, but the young country is still finding its way. When young lawyer Justy Flanagan returns to solve his father’s murder\, he exposes a massive fraud that has already claimed lives\, and one the perpetrators are determined to keep secret at any cost. The body count is rising\, and the looming crisis could topple the nation. \n  \nAbout Dodging and Burning \nIn the summer of 1945\, Ceola Bliss is a lonely twelve-year-old tomboy\, mourning the loss of her brother\, Robbie\, who was declared missing in the Pacific. She tries to piece together his life by rereading his favorite pulp detective story “A Date with Death” and spending time with his best friend\, Jay Greenwood\, in Royal Oak\, VA. One unforgettable August day\, Jay leads Ceola and Bunny to a stretch of woods where he found a dead woman\, but when they arrive\, the body is gone. They soon discover a local woman named Lily Vellum is missing and begin to piece together the threads of her murder\, starting with the photograph Jay took of her abandoned body As Ceola gets swept up playing girl detective\, Bunny becomes increasingly skeptical of Jay\, and begins her own investigation into the connection between Jay and Lily. She discovers a series of clues that place doubt on Jay’s story about the photograph. She journeys to Washington\, D.C.\, where she is forced to confront the brutal truth about her dear friend–a discovery that triggers a series of events that will bring tragedy to Jay and decades of estrangement between her and Ceola.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-copenhaver-and-paddy-hirsch/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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