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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:Catherine deCuir and Robert Schoen present The Rabbi Finds Her Way
DESCRIPTION:About the Book: \n“This rabbi gig. People have no idea what it’s all about.” \nA year after graduating from rabbinical school\, Pearl Ross-Levy lands the job of her life. As Associate Rabbi at Lakeshore Temple in Oakland\, California\, Pearl begins to learn what being a rabbi is all about. \nThrough compelling\, inspiring\, and often funny episodes\, the young rabbi meets a cast of quirky characters and discovers what it means to become a leader in the synagogue community. As Pearl faces the challenges of her new role\, we witness her kindness and compassion as well as her resourcefulness and courage. \nWhether it is caring for her high school classmate (the victim of a serious car accident)\, struggling with the anguish of a man who believes he’s committed a murder\, or bringing the community together to help a lonely cancer patient feel not so alone\, the rabbi teaches us how a little love and caring can affect people in wonderful ways. \nThe Rabbi’s strength and faith grow as she continues to see that God does\, indeed\, work in strange ways. \nAuthor Bios: \nRobert Schoen is the author of On God’s Radar—My Walk Across America and the award-winning book What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew About Judaism. He lives in Oakland\, California. \nCatherine deCuir is a cantorial soloist\, jazz vocalist\, and fiction writer. She lives in Albany\, California. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, July 11\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books on Solano\n1855 Solano Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94707
URL:https://litseen.com/event/catherine-decuir-and-robert-schoen-present-the-rabbi-finds-her-way/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ruchika Tomar
DESCRIPTION:Ruchika Tomar discusses her new novel\, A Prayer for Travelers. \nPraise For A Prayer for Travelers \n“Sometimes characters come along that demand a new kind of novel. The young women at the center of Ruchika Tomar’s A Prayer for Travelers – elusive Penny and wounded Cale – are two spirits hitchhiking through geographies of dislocation and desire. The human collisions in Tomar’s novel are emotionally seismic\, and they leave us haunted and unsettled.”--Adam Johnson\, author of The Orphan Master’s Son \n“Ruchika Tomar is an ace cartographer of the heart and its urgent\, wild\, unruly ways. Radiant with longing\, A Prayer for Travelers is an unforgettable debut.”  —R.O. Kwon\, author of The Incendiaries  \n“A Prayer for Travelers is a novel haunted by missing persons and lost souls\, written in telepathic prose. Ruchika Tomar sees through walls\, around corners\, and into the deep heart of what matters\, and moves us\, the most. A beautiful debut.”—Ben Marcus\, author of The Flame Alphabet \nAbout A Prayer For Travelers \nCale Lambert\, a bookish loner of mysterious parentage\, lives in a dusty town near the California-Nevada border\, a place where coyotes scavenge for backyard dogs and long-haul truckers scavenge for pills and girls. Cale was raised by her grandfather in a loving\, if codependent\, household\, but as soon as she’s left high school his health begins an agonizing decline. Set adrift for the first time\, Cale starts waitressing at the local diner\, where she reconnects with Penélope Reyes\, a charismatic former classmate running mysterious side-hustles to fund her dreams. Penny exposes Cale to the reality that exists beyond their small town\, and the girls become inseparable—-until one terrifying act of violence shatters their world. When Penny vanishes without a trace\, Cale must set off on a dangerous quest across the desert to find her friend\, and discover herself. \nAn audacious debut\, told in deftly interwoven chapters\, A Prayer for Travelers explores the complicated legacy of the American West and the trauma of female experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ruchika-tomar/
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:Aaron Hamburger: Nirvana Is Here
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author Aaron Hamburger (The View from Stalin’s Head\, Faith for Beginners) reads from his new novel Nirvana Is Here. When his ex-husband is accused of sexual harassment in the #metoo era\, history professor Ari Silverman is forced to confront long-buried trauma from his childhood\, where he and his high school crush bonded over the raw emotion of Kurt Cobain’s lyrics in the segregated suburbs of 1990s Detroit. Nirvana Is Here explores issues of identity\, race\, sex\, and family with both poignancy and unexpected humor. “A touching\, finely wrought portrait of secrets lying like buried ordinance beneath ordinary lives. The delicacy and observational wit of Aaron Hamburger’s prose are a marvel.”–Louis Bayard\, author of Courting Mr. Lincoln \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDog Eared Books (Castro) \n\n489 Castro St.\nSan Francisco\, CA 94114
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-hamburger-nirvana-is-here/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry of Witness: Documenting what we see and feel
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: MK Chavez\, Sharon Coleman\, Judy Bebelaar\, Mary Mackey. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-of-witness-documenting-what-we-see-and-feel/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Julia Phillips
DESCRIPTION:Julia Phillips discusses her new novel\, Disappearing Earth. \nPraise for Disappearing Earth \n“I cannot speak too highly of Julia Phillips’s thrilling\, impeccably written and splendidly imagined story\, set with rigorous attention to detail in one of the most volcanically dangerous and beautifully remote corners of the planet.  An exciting beginning from an author whose literary future looks set to be stellar.”—Simon Winchester  \n“Julia Phillips is at once a careful cartographer and gorgeous storyteller. Written with passion and patience\, this is the story of a people and the land that shapes them. A mystery of two missing girls burns at the center of this astonishing debut\, and the complexity of ethnicity\, gender\, hearth and kin illuminates this question and many more.”—Tayari Jones\, author of An American Marriage  \n“A genuine masterpiece\, but one that is easily consumed in a feverish stay-up-all-night bout of reading pleasure. It’s as much a portrait of humanity as of a small Kamchatka community.” —Gary Shteyngart \n“A feat of literary suspense. I felt like a wide-eyed kid reading Julia Phillips’s Disappearing Earth. I could live in her portrayal of this remote part of the world forever.”—Sloane Crosley\, author of I Was Told There’d Be Cake \nAbout Disappearing Earth \nOne August afternoon\, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia\, two girls–sisters\, eight and eleven–go missing. In the ensuing weeks\, then months\, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community\, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. \nTaking us through a year in Kamchatka\, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters\, all connected by the crime: a witness\, a neighbor\, a detective\, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty–densely wooded forests\, open expanses of tundra\, soaring volcanoes\, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska–and into a region as complex as it is alluring\, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered\, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. \nIn a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging\, and through a young writer’s virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination\, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community\, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-phillips/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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