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SUMMARY:Stacey Lee with Stephanie Garber
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of Stacey Lee’s powerful\, compelling\, and critically acclaimed new novel\, The Downstairs Girl\, about family\, community\, and the importance of writing your own history. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n*”Though society may try to push aside those it sees as different\, Jo demonstrates that everyone has a place and a story to be told. Unflinching in its portrayals of racism yet ultimately hopeful and heartfelt\, this narrative places voices frequently left out of historical fiction center stage.” —School Library Journal\, starred review \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy day\, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady’s maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night\, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady\, “Dear Miss Sweetie.” When her column becomes wildly popular\, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society’s ills\, but she’s not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race and gender. While her opponents clamor to uncover the secret identity of Miss Sweetie\, a mysterious letter sets Jo off on a search for her own past and the parents who abandoned her as a baby. But when her efforts put her in the crosshairs of Atlanta’s most notorious criminal\, Jo must decide whether she is ready to step into the light. \nStacey Lee is the author of Under a Painted Sky\, Outrun the Moon\, and Secret of a Heart Note and is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books. Stephanie Garber\, author of Caraval\, Legendary\, and Finale\, will be joining Stacey on stage.
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LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Tim Murphy: Correspondents
DESCRIPTION:Tim Murphy discusses his new novel\, Correspondents. \nPraise for Correspondents \n“Murphy artfully connects multiple narratives to produce a sprawling tale of love\, family\, duty\, war\, and displacement. It is above all a stinging indictment of the ill-fated war in Iraq and the heavy tolls it continues to exact on its people.”–Khaled Hosseini\, author of The Kite Runner \nAbout The Correspondents \nThe world is Rita Khoury’s oyster. The bright and driven daughter of a Boston-area Irish-Arab family that has risen over the generations from poor immigrants to part of the coastal elite\, Rita grows up in a 1980s cultural mishmash. Corned beef and cabbage sit on the dinner table alongside stuffed grape leaves and tabooleh\, all cooked by Rita’s mother\, an Irish nurse who met her Lebanese surgeon husband while working at a hospital together. The unconventional yet close-knit family bonds over summers at the beach\, wedding line-dances\, and a shared obsession with the Red Sox. \nRita charts herself an ambitious path through Harvard to one of the best newspapers in the country. She is posted in cosmopolitan Beirut and dates a handsome Palestinian would-be activist. But when she is assigned to cover the America-led invasion of Baghdad in 2003\, she finds herself unprepared for the warzone. Her lifeline is her interpreter and fixer Nabil al-Jumaili\, an equally restless young man whose dreams have been restricted by life in a deteriorating dictatorship\, not to mention his own seemingly impossible desires. As the war tears Iraq apart\, personal betrayal and the horrors of conflict force Rita and Nabil out of the country and into twisting\, uncertain fates. What lies in wait will upend their lives forever\, shattering their own notions of what they’re entitled to in a grossly unjust world. \nEpic in scope\, by turns satirical and heartbreaking\, and speaking sharply to America’s current moment\, Correspondents is a whirlwind story about displacement from one’s own roots\, the violence America promotes both abroad and at home\, and the resilience that allows families to remake themselves and endure even the most shocking upheavals.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tim-murphy-correspondents/
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:Joshua Furst / Revolutionaries
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Joshua Furst (The Sabotage Café) to the store for his second novel\, Revolutionaries\, a long\, strange trip through the heart of the sixties and beyond as seen through the eyes of the revolution’s poster child. Please join us! \n> Review in The New York Times \n> Review in The New Yorker \nFred is the sole offspring of Lenny Snyder\, the famous (or notorious) pied piper of the counterculture\, and in middle age he hates being reminded of it. But neither can he ignore any longer his psychedelically bizarre childhood. From infancy\, for instance\, he was called Freedom (in fact his given name) not only by those who should have known him but also by members of the burgeoning movement led by his father\, who happily exploited having his wife and his toddling\, then walking and talking\, and finally observant son in tow. Thanks to Fred\, this charismatic\, brilliant\, volatile ringmaster is as captivating in these pages as he was to his devoted disciples back then. We watch Lenny organize hippies and intellectuals\, stage magnificent stunts\, and gradually lose his magnetic confidence and leading role as the sixties start slipping away. He demands loyalty but gives none back in return\, a man who preaches love but treats his family with almost reflexive cruelty. And Fred remembers all of it–the chaos\, the spite\, the affection. A kaleidoscopic saga\, this novel is at once a profound allegory for America–where we’ve been and where we’re going–and a deeply intimate portrait of a father and son who define our times. \n\nJoshua Furst is the author of Short People and The Sabotage Café\, as well as several plays that have been produced in New York\, where for a number of years wrote and directed plays in the downtown theater scene. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he’s the recipient of a Michener Fellowship\, the Chicago Tribune‘s Nelson Algren Award\, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Ledig House. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University. Author photo by Michael Lionstar. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Revolutionaries\, order below and put your request in the comments field; to request a signed copy of any of Joshua’s other books\, do the same via this link.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joshua-furst-revolutionaries/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
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