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SUMMARY:Aysegül Savas
DESCRIPTION:Aysegül Savas discusses her new novel\, Walking on the Ceiling. \nPraise for Walking on the Ceiling \n“Ayşegül Savaş is an enormous new talent who writes with the rigor of Didion and the tenderness of Sebald. Walking on the Ceiling holds the immediacy of youth and the depth of long-earned wisdom at once. Its elegant voice is sure to summon old memories and longings from each reader\, relighting them anew.”\n—Catherine Lacey\, author of The Answers \n“In Walking on the Ceiling\, Aysegul Savas investigates the inability of any story to accurately evoke lived experience—yet her unconventional narrative succeeds in doing just that. Savas’s celebration of the minutest details of Paris and Istanbul is juxtaposed\, to devastating effect\, against rising political tensions. This quietly intense debut is the product of a wise and probing mind.”\n—Helen Phillips\, author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat \n“Walking on the Ceiling is an elegant meditation on grief\, identity\, memory and homecoming. Moving between Paris and Istanbul\, the novel captures the tangle of narrative around history\, both personal and collective. I fell in love with this book.”\n—Katie Kitamura\, author of A Separation \n“Sensual\, fragile\, scented with hope and loss\, Walking on the Ceiling is a powerful debut and Ayşegül Savaş is an extremely talented rising star.” —Dorthe Nors\, author of Mirror\, Shoulder\, Signal \nAbout Walking on the Ceiling \nA mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul\, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past – her country’s and her own – and her complicated relationship with the famous British writer who longs for her memories. \nAfter her mother’s death\, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore\, she meets M.\, an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city. \nM. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and Nunu tells him about her family\, hoping to impress and inspire him. She recounts the idyllic landscapes of her past\, mythical family meals\, and her elaborate childhood games. As she does so\, she also begins to confront her mother’s silence and anger\, her father’s death\, and the growing unrest in Istanbul. Their intimacy deepens\, so does Nunu’s fear of revealing too much to M. and of giving too much of herself and her Istanbul away. Most of all\, she fears that she will have to face her own guilt about her mother and the narratives she’s told to protect herself from her memories. \nA wise and unguarded glimpse into a young woman’s coming into her own\, Walking on the Ceiling is about memory\, the pleasure of invention\, and those places\, real and imagined\, we can’t escape.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aysegul-savas/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:He’s back! John Waters presents his new book Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
DESCRIPTION:No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude\, clever\, and offensively compelling—than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache\, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos\, Polyester\, the original Hairspray\, Cry-Baby\, and A Dirty Shame\, is one of the world’s great sophisticates\, and in Mr. Know-It-Allhe serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it; more important\, how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk; and yes\, how to cheat death itself. Through it all\, Waters swears by one undeniable truth: “Whatever you might have heard\, there is absolutely no downside to being famous. None at all.” \nTickets available mid–April.\nWatch this space for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hes-back-john-waters-presents-his-new-book-mr-know-it-all-the-tarnished-wisdom-of-a-filth-elder/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chia-Chia Lin
DESCRIPTION:Chia-Chia Lin discusses her debut novel\, The Unpassing. \n\nPraise for The Unpassing \n“In this spare\, deeply felt debut novel\, Lin resists received wisdom about the American dream to craft a family saga about the difficulty of grieving far from home.” —Adrienne Westenfeld\, Esquire \n“Chia-Chia Lin’s The Unpassing is a searing\, open wound of a book\, marvelously alive and\, quite simply\, remarkable. Traversing the oftentimes brutal frontier of an isolated family living in an isolated environment\, I can’t think of another novel as of late that relentlessly tackles headlong our deepest struggles for a sense of place\, of home\, and belonging. How do we push through grief? How do we find peace with not only our loved ones but ourselves? What sacrifices must we endure for friendship and connection? This is a story for our times. And a story unlike any other.” —Paul Yoon\, author of The Mountain \n“The Unpassing is a devastating debut\, igneous\, aching as if with the glow of the great northern skies beneath which it is set. More than meditation on grief; more than immigrant saga\, or bildungsroman; more than new American gothic: here\, Chia-Chia Lin has written a novel of such strange\, brittle beauty as to resemble nothing else so much as living\, itself. Her prose—at once poetic and lucid\, by turns darkly comic and haunting—achieves something like the peculiar grammar of loss. I turned the last page with heartache and wonder\, a feeling of having been undone and remade.” —D. Wystan Owen\, author of Other People’s Love Affairs \n  \nAbout The Unpassing \nOne of Esquire\, The Rumpus\, The Millions\, Literary Hub and Electric Literature‘s Most Anticipated Books of 2019 \nA searing debut novel that explores community\, identity\, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska \nIn Chia-Chia Lin’s debut novel\, The Unpassing\, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage\, Alaska. The father\, hardworking but beaten down\, is employed as a plumber and repairman\, while the mother\, a loving\, strong-willed\, and unpredictably emotional matriarch\, holds the house together. When ten-year-old Gavin contracts meningitis at school\, he falls into a deep\, nearly fatal coma. He wakes up a week later to learn that his little sister Ruby was infected\, too. She did not survive. \nRoutine takes over for the grieving family: the siblings care for each other as they befriend a neighboring family and explore the woods; distance grows between the parents as they deal with their loss separately. But things spiral when the father\, increasingly guilt ridden after Ruby’s death\, is sued for not properly installing a septic tank\, which results in grave harm to a little boy. In the ensuing chaos\, what really happened to Ruby finally emerges. \nWith flowing prose that evokes the terrifying beauty of the Alaskan wilderness\, Lin explores the fallout after the loss of a child and the way in which a family is forced to grieve in a place that doesn’t yet feel like home. Emotionally raw and subtly suspenseful\, The Unpassing is a deeply felt family saga that dismisses the American dream for a harsher\, but ultimately more profound\, reality.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chia-chia-lin-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Congresswoman Jackie Speier discusses UNDAUNTED: Surviving Jonestown\, Summoning Courage\, and Fighting Back
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 30\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nCongresswoman Jackie Spier discusses her inspiring and powerful memoir\, Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown\, Summoning Courage\, and Fighting Back. \n“Few people embody resilience like Jackie Speier. She faced unthinkable trauma with courage—and came through it with an unshakable sense of purpose. UNDAUNTED is a remarkable story of survival and strength.” —Sheryl Sandberg\, COO of Facebook and founder of LeanIn.org and OptionB.org \n“Jackie Speier’s life has been nothing short of harrowing and triumphant. UNDAUNTED will move women to persist and have their voices heard in government. It will inspire young women to be our future leaders who serve with conviction and compassion.”\n—Amy Tan\, author of The Joy Luck Club \n“Jackie Speier has lived an incredible life and has passionately dedicated much of it to public service. UNDAUNTED is honest\, eye-opening\, and truly inspiring.”\n—Congressman John Lewis\, civil rights leader\n \nAn inspiring and powerful memoir of surviving the Jonestown massacre and becoming a fearless voice against injustice and inequality by California congresswoman Jackie Speier. \nJackie Speier was twenty-eight when she joined Congressman Leo Ryan’s delegation to rescue defectors from cult leader Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple in Jonestown\, Guyana. Ryan was killed on the airstrip tarmac. Jackie was shot five times at point-blank range. While recovering from what would become one of the most harrowing tragedies in recent history\, Jackie had to choose: Would she become a victim or a fighter? The choice to survive against unfathomable odds empowered her with a resolve to become a vocal proponent for human rights. \nFrom the formative nightmare that radically molded her perspective and instincts to the devastating personal and professional challenges that would follow\, Undaunted reveals the perseverance of a determined force in American politics. Deeply rooted in Jackie’s experiences as a widow\, a mother\, a congresswoman\, and a fighter\, hers is a story of true resilience\, one that will inspire other women to draw strength from adversity in order to do what is right—no matter the challenges ahead. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, May 30\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/congresswoman-jackie-speier-discusses-undaunted-surviving-jonestown-summoning-courage-and-fighting-back/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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