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SUMMARY:Ingrid Rojas Contreras celebrating the release of her debut novel  Fruit of the Drunken Tree
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of her debut novel \nFruit of the Drunken Tree  \nfrom Random House \nA mesmerizing debut set in Colombia at the height Pablo Escobar’s violent reign about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them bothSeven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá\, 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 Treecontrasts 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. \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 has received fellowships and awards from The Missouri Review\, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, VONA\, Hedgebrook\, The Camargo Foundation\, Djerassi Resident Artists Program\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She is the book columnist for KQED Arts\, the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ingrid-rojas-contreras-celebrating-the-release-of-her-debut-novel-fruit-of-the-drunken-tree/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Marilyn Berlin Snell / Unlikely Ally
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch party for Marilyn Berlin Snellfor her new book Unlikely Ally: How the Military Fights Climate Change and Protects the Environment. Please join us! \n  \nWhat do national security and defense mean in the ecologically destabilizing age of climate change? In California\, the US military has begun to redefine these concepts by taking on a largely unrecognized yet crucial role in renewable-energy innovation and in preserving cultural and natural treasures. Environmental stewardship is law on installations throughout the United States\, but a few bases in Southern California have taken a more comprehensive approach—one in which energy security and protection of threatened and endangered species are embedded in the practice of national defense. Unlikely Ally takes us through these bases to examine what twenty-first-century sustainable-energy infrastructure looks like; whether combat readiness and species protection can successfully coexist; how cutting-edge technology and water-conservation practices could transform life in a resource-constrained world; and how the Department of Defense’s scientific research into the metabolic secrets of the endangered desert tortoise could speed human travel to Mars. With investigative journalist Marilyn Berlin Snell as our guide\, we explore a martial culture in California informed by science\, strategic imperative\, state and federal law\, and visionary leadership. \n  \n\n  \n“Marilyn Berlin Snell brings the paradox of military sustainability into full view in this lively account from California’s desert and coastal training grounds\, showing how national security and natural security can manage to work together.” – David Havlick\, author of Bombs Away: Militarization\, Conservation\, and Ecological Restoration \n  \n“Uncovers a surprising bright spot on our fraught horizon.” – Mary Ellen Hannibal\, author of Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction \n  \n\n  \nMarilyn Berlin Snell is an independent journalist whose work focuses on the environment and politics. She was staff writer for Sierra\, the magazine of the Sierra Club\, from 2000 to 2008 and founding director of the magazine’s Investigative Journalism Project. Her freelance work has appeared in publications including the New York Times\, Mother Jones\, The Nation\, and Discover. Visit her website at www.marilynberlinsnell.com. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is a free and all-ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens with doors at 7pm; event begins at 7:30. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Unlikely Ally\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-marilyn-berlin-snell-unlikely-ally/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7 pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-club-2/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jane Mount / Bibliophile
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts beloved artist and founder of Ideal Bookshelf Jane Mount for Bibliophile. Please join us! \nBook lovers\, rejoice! In this love letter to all things bookish\, Jane Mount brings literary people\, places\, and things to life through her signature and vibrant illustrations. Readers will: \n•  Tour the world’s most beautiful bookstores\n•  Test their knowledge of the written word with quizzes\n•  Find their next great read in lovingly curated stacks of books\n•  Sample the most famous fictional meals\n•  Peek inside the workspaces of their favorite authors \nA source of endless inspiration\, literary facts and recommendations\, and pure bookish joy\, Bibliophile is sure to enchant book clubbers\, English majors\, poetry devotees\, inspiring writers\, and any and all who identify as bookworms. \n  \nBonus: check out the profile of Booksmith\, and the accompanying illustration of Christin and Praveen\, to be found in the section Beloved Bookstores! \n  \n\n  \nJane Mount is an illustrator\, designer\, and founder of Ideal Bookshelf\, a company that makes things for people who love books. She lives on Maui\, in Hawaii. \n  \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nThis event is free and all ages.
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LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julie Bruck
DESCRIPTION:Julie Bruck reads from her new poetry collection\, How to Avoid Huge Ships. \n\nPraise for Jule Bruck \n\n“She is the poet laureate of aftermath\, of what we do in the wake of things. She picks up the broken pieces of what’s left\, and these she patches together\, as she can\, into beautifully-wrought poems that bear eloquent witness to what remains.” Seán Kennedy \n\n“Alert and precise\, perceptive and measured\, Julie Bruck’s poems calibrate situations both grave and brave\, serious and hilarious\, whilst avoiding the ‘large ships’ of heavy-handed conclusion. Here are genuine smarts\, mature talent\, and a wide-angle vision.” —Sharon Thesen \n\nAbout How to Avoid Huge Ships \n\nHow to Avoid Huge Ships\, Julie Bruck’s fourth collection of poetry\, is a book of arguments and spells against the ambushes of age. This is\, of course\, a pointless exercise with a rich history. Bruck’s new poems excavate a middle zone?as old parents wither and regress\, while the young declare their independence. Parents grow down\, children up\, and it’s from the uncomfortable in-between that these poems peer into what Philip Larkin describes as “the long slide.” But what if we haven’t reached the end of the infinite adolescence we thought we’d been promised? We’re still here in this world of flying ottomans\, alongside a middle-schooler named Dow Jones\, and the prehistoric miracle of a blue heron’s foot. We may be afraid\, but we’re still amused–sometimes\, even awed. \n  \nLooking squarely at the way things are\, glossing over none of the absurdities and injustices of contemporary life\, Julie Bruck pays ardent attention to it all. This is a subtle art\, restrained. Its power often lies in what is not said right out but which fires up in a reader. The touch is light\, even when the subject is heavy. One has a steady sense of being trusted to catch and feel the intangible muchness housed in deceptively plain poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julie-bruck/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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