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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Marie Mutsuki Mockett
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, May 6\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION: \nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nThis event was postponed due to the planned PG&E power outage but has been rescheduled to May 6th at 2:30pm in Hagerty Lounge! \nWhether your parents read you bedtime stories\, or you watched a lot of television growing up\, (or both)\, you were unknowingly imprinting on story structures that reflect the culture you are from. What’s more\, the ending of those stories taught you to feel that a certain kind of resolution just seems more complete. In this talk\, we will take a look at western fairy tales and eastern fairy tales. We will see over and over how the stories overlap\, but resolve differently\, reflecting very different worldviews. The beauty of this kind of story analysis is that it can not only give us an appreciation for stories outside the usual grab bag of patterns we turn to\, but also may open us up to take greater creative risks\, and expand our understanding of what it means to be human. \nMarie Mutsuki Mockett’s memoir\, “Where the Dead Pause\, and the Japanese Say Goodbye\,” examines grief against the backdrop of the 2011 Great East Earthquake in Japan and was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award\, Indies Choice Best Book for Nonfiction and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her new work\, American Harvest: God\, Country and Farming in the Heartland\, forthcoming from Graywolf in April\, 2020\, follows her journey through seven heartland states in the company of evangelical Christian harvesters\, and examines role of GMOs\, God\, agriculture\, and race in society.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-marie-mutsuki-mockett/
LOCATION:De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 928 St. Marys Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Craft Conversation with Marie Mutsuki Mockett
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME: \nWednesday\, May 6\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \nLOCATION:  \nOnline\nhttps://stmarys-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/vp0qde6upz8sb00VbumXa71hDPDicEk64A \nDESCRIPTION: \nTHEN WE CAME TO THE END \nWhether your parents read you bedtime stories\, or you watched a lot of television growing up\, (or both)\, you were unknowingly imprinting on story structures that reflect the culture you are from. What’s more\, the ending of those stories taught you to feel that a certain kind of resolution just seems more complete. In this talk\, we will take a look at western fairy tales and eastern fairy tales. We will see over and over how the stories overlap\, but resolve differently\, reflecting very different worldviews. The beauty of this kind of story analysis is that it can not only give us an appreciation for stories outside the usual grab bag of patterns we turn to\, but also may open us up to take greater creative risks\, and expand our understanding of what it means to be human. \nMarie Mutsuki Mockett’s memoir\, Where the Dead Pause\, and the Japanese Say Goodbye\, examines grief against the backdrop of the 2011 Great East Earthquake in Japan and was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award\, Indies Choice Best Book for Nonfiction and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her new work\, American Harvest: God\, Country and Farming in the Heartland\, forthcoming from Graywolf in April\, 2020\, follows her journey through seven heartland states in the company of evangelical Christian harvesters\, and examines role of GMOs\, God\, agriculture\, and race in society.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-craft-conversation-with-marie-mutsuki-mockett-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:HOW HAVE I NOT READ THIS! A Virtual Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Book Club Discussion of Alfred Camus The Plague featuring Emily St John Mandel\, Laura Marris and Alice Kaplan \nSponsored by Alfred Knopf and City Lights \n\n\n**This is a virtual event that will be hosted on Zoom – you will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing and sufficient Internet access. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom.** \nDIGITAL DOORS: 3:40PM PST and 6:40PM EST (be the first to submit a question/participate in chat) \nEVENT START: 4:00PM PST and 7:00PM EST (or shortly after once all are checked in) \n——– \nEvent is Free\, but requires registration. \n(Register Here) click the link \n——– \nto purchase the book click (HERE) \n——– \nJoin Emily St. John Mandel\, Laura Marris\, and Alice Kaplan for a live\, virtual discussion of Albert Camus’s The Plague. \nMore than seventy years after its original publication\, The Plague has become a national bestseller. Mandel\, Marris\, and Kaplan will explore themes of the novel\, examine the era in which it was written\, and look at responses to the work in the current environment. They will also answer any questions you have about it. THE PLAGUE is a haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of an epidemic that is ravaging a North African coastal town. This inaugural selection of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group’s “How Have I Not Read This?” book club was recently hailed as “a redemptive book\, one that wills the reader to believe\, even in a time of despair” (Los Angeles Times). \nRead along with us at #HowHaveINotReadThis \nabout the participants: \nAlice Kaplan\, Yale University’s Sterling Professor and chair of the Department of French\, was quoted by NPR on April 1: “I never imagined I would be teaching this novel in the midst of an epidemic… I never imagined I’d need to give a trigger warning for teaching Camus’ The Plague… People are saying in the French press\, what do you absolutely need to read in this time? You need to read The Plague. Almost as though this novel were a vaccine — not just a novel that can help us think about what we’re experiencing\, but something that can help heal us.” \nLaura Marris is currently translating a new edition of The Plague to be published by Knopf in 2021. In The New York Times on April 16 she wrote: “I still hope that books from the past can be a kind of serum for the future\, as Camus intended his novel to be. He knew that his book would be needed again\, long after his death\, in a context he couldn’t predict or imagine.” \nEmily St. John Mandel’s latest novel\, The Glass Hotel\, is currently on bestseller lists nationwide. Her previous book\, the National Book Award finalist Station Eleven\, is itself one of our best looks at humanity before and after a pandemic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-have-i-not-read-this-a-virtual-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Readings at City Lights Bookstore: Emerson Whitney
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \n>Purchase The Book Here< \n———— \nEmerson Whitney writes\, “Really\, I can’t explain myself without making a mess.” What follows is that mess—electrifying\, gorgeous\, defiant. \nAt Heaven‘s center\, Whitney seeks to understand their relationship to their mother and grandmother\, those first windows into womanhood and all its consequences. Whitney retraces a roving youth in deeply observant\, psychedelic prose—all the while folding in the work of thinkers like Judith Butler\, Donna Haraway\, and C. Riley Snorton—to engage transness and the breathing\, morphing nature of selfhood. \nAn expansive examination of what makes us up\, Heaven wonders what role our childhood plays in who we are. Can we escape the discussion of causality? Is the story of our body just ours? With extraordinary emotional force\, Whitney sways between theory and memory in order to explore these brazen questions and write this unforgettable book. \nEmerson Whitney is the author of Ghost Box. Emerson teaches in the BFA creative writing program at Goddard College and is a postdoctoral fellow in gender studies at the University of Southern California. \nPraise for Heaven \n“An incisive\, nuanced inquiry into gender and body.”\n—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“Melodic and engagingly written\, Heaven will enrapture anyone who loves reading for beauty and intellectual challenge at once.”\n—Literary Hub \n“Heaven delves into deep memory and deep thinking to offer an ‘account of oneself’ that questions\, if not upends\, the very idea of such a thing at every turn. The result is a poetic\, candid\, probing reckoning with childhood\, the maternal\, gender\, and the possibilities of theory which will both speak to its time and outlast it.”\n—Maggie Nelson\, author Bluets and The Argonauts \n“Emerson has written a story about Mommy and me but mainly they’re extending to us a forceful act of writing in defense of the self that is taking pictures\, running away—eyes full of tears\, then pirouetting\, and standing their ground to tell us this colossally wonderful and woefully broken story.”\n—Eileen Myles\, author of Chelsea Girls and I Must Be Living Twice \n“Heaven is the book of deepest affections\, a harrowing book\, a bewitched book. Composed in a style of a bird-nest\, Heaven weaves together multiple threads of conversation with self and with brilliant voices of others\, as different as Lacan and Jos Charles\, Allen Ginsberg and Michael Ondaatje. One can’t help but be moved by this compelling record\, this book of hours for pain made utterly beautiful by its author’s patient meditation on childhood and gender\, motherhood and sorrow.”\n—Ilya Kaminksy\, author of Deaf Republic \n“Heaven goes down like a strong elixir… I can still feel its heat swirling through me.”\n—Melissa Febos\, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me \n“Heaven\, although prose\, is poetry. The language is tender and present. The word performs connection and recovery… Theory from such thinkers as Butler\, Foucault\, Freud\, Haraway\, Irigaray\, and Lacan are broken down to its lived practical parts and brought back into common parlance\, brought in relation to the etymology that is Whitney’s becoming.”\n—Arisa White\, author of You’re The Most Beautiful Thing That Happened \n“Elegantly poetic\, beautiful\, brutal\, and wise… Heaven is a wonder.”\n—Michelle Tea\, author of Valencia and Modern Tarot \n“Someone asked me recently if I ever imagine writing from today that has the strength to remain in print centuries from now. ‘Yes\, I do\,’ I said\, and told them about a book by Emerson Whitney called Heaven. Every page is beautifully written\, pitch-perfect harrowing\, but maybe more important is how it changes many things we thought we understood about life. Hundreds of years from now\, readers can better appreciate this time and this nation through Emerson Whitney’s extraordinary lens\, where they write\, ‘The history of categorization around disability in the United States was always about social control.'”\n—CAConrad\, author of While Standing in Line for Death \n“Exploring and exploding gender\, language\, desire\, this book is necessary reading for anyone who’s used language\, who has had a mother\, who has a body at all.”\n—Sam Sax\, author of Madness
URL:https://litseen.com/event/readings-at-city-lights-bookstore-emerson-whitney/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ask Again\, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom on Wednesday\, May 6 at 7 PM Pacific for a virtual book chat about one of Kathleen’s favorite books of the year\, ASK AGAIN\, YES by Mary Beth Keane. \nZoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85382264291 \nWe’ll be playing excerpts of the audiobook from our audiobook partner\, Libro.fm. You can get your audiobook here: http://bit.ly/2wvRKyh \nIf you’d prefer paper\, here’s a link to our website where you can order a copy for shipment from our warehouse: http://bit.ly/2wrTqZH \n“One of the most unpretentiously profound books I’ve read in a long time…modestly magnificent.” —Maureen Corrigan\, Fresh Air
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ask-again-yes-by-mary-beth-keane/
LOCATION:A Great Good Place for Books\, 6120 La Salle Ave.\, Oakland\, California\, 94611
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reading at a Distance / Tanea Lunsford Lynx and Mmakgosi Anita Tau
DESCRIPTION:We’ve partnered with the Headlands Center for the Arts to bring you a series of distanced literary readings with Headlands Artists\, curated by Emily Wolahan (AFF ’16–’19). Join Tanea Lunsford Lynx (AIR ’20) and Mmakgosi Anita Tau (AIR ’20) for the second event of the series on Wednesday\, May 6 at 7PM PST. \nYou can join the event here. We will also be streaming on Facebook Live. \nWe’re very pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. You can still support us in the usual ways: you can make donations; you can buy the author’s books and we’ll deliver them directly to your door; and we keep our gift certificates on file and they never expire. Thank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-at-a-distance-tanea-lunsford-lynx-and-mmakgosi-anita-tau/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of her new short fiction collection \nSansei and Sensibility \npublished by Coffee House Press \nGenerations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen’s characters in these lively stories\, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics. \nIn these buoyant and inventive stories\, Japanese Americans shift the boundaries of Jane Austen’s classic tales\, questioning what inheritance—familial\, cultural\, artistic—really means. In ’60s California and beyond\, a woman examines the contents of her dead aunt’s freezer\, Mr. Darcy is captain of the football team\, a dental hygienist collects a community’s gossip while cleaning his neighbors’ teeth\, and station wagons\, not horse-drawn carriages\, are the transit of the day. These narratives that traverse class\, race\, and gender leap into our modern world with Yamashita’s signature wit and humor. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books\, including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award\, and most recently\, Letters to Memory\, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship\, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nPraise for Sansei and Sensibility \n“Dazzling. An extraordinarily inventive collection of short stories that takes us from Japan to Brazil to the fractured heart of suburban postwar Japanese America. Whether she is riffing on Jane Austen\, channeling Jorge Luis Borges\, or meditating on Marie Kondo\, Yamashita is a brilliant and often subversive storyteller in superb command of her craft.” —Julie Otsuka \n“Through vignettes\, recipes\, and correspondence\, master writer Karen Tei Yamashita takes us through the rabbit hole of Japanese America—in particular\, her hometown of Gardena\, California\, where an ethnic community culturally transformed a middle-class bedroom town. Part Ozu meditation of everyday life\, part modern folk tale with colorful characters like a truth-telling dental hygienist\, Sansei and Sensibility offers a unique and necessary perspective of what it means to be the aging grandchild of Asian immigrants\, wondering what you will leave behind for the next generation. As in all of her books\, Yamashita deconstructs form and genre to create a work that both delights and challenges.” —Naomi Hirahara \n“This capacious collection is witty\, sharp—funny at times\, angry at times—always amazing\, and never\, never dull. I think Jane Austen would be surprised\, but delighted. I surely am.” —Karen Joy Fowler \nPraise for the work of Karen Tei Yamashita \n2010 National Book Award Finalist\n2011 American Book Award Winner \n“This powerful\, deeply felt\, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative and overwhelming in every sense.” —Publishers Weekly \n“The extraordinary testimony of a revolutionary past. . . . I Hotel is crammed with detail\, with real-life pamphlets\, speeches\, quotes\, and news reports humming and crackling in the background. The whole thing makes for an astonishing\, and carefully structured\, collage of both local and global movement.” —The Nation \n“Immensely entertaining.” —Newsday \n“Shaped and voiced with literary flair\, this is clearly a book Yamashita felt compelled to write\, and her sense of purpose makes this historical excavation feel deeply personal.” —Kirkus \n“Yamashita incorporates satire and the surreal in prose that is playful yet knowing\, fierce yet mournful.”—San Francisco Chronicle
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-tei-yamashita/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:C Pam Zhang\, How Much of These Hills is Gold at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:This is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \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. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by May 4th. \nAn electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush\, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape–trying not just to survive but to find a home. \nBa dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants\, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town\, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way\, they encounter giant buffalo bones\, tiger paw prints\, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets\, sibling rivalry\, and glimpses of a different kind of future. \nBoth epic and intimate\, blending Chinese symbolism and re-imagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story\, an unforgettable sibling story\, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level\, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page\, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families\, and the yearning for home. \nBorn in Beijing but mostly an artifact of the United States\, C Pam Zhang has lived in thirteen cities across four countries and is still looking for home. She’s been awarded support from Tin House\, Bread Loaf\, Aspen Words and elsewhere\, and currently lives in San Francisco. \n“[An] extraordinary debut. . . Gorgeously written and fearlessly imagined\, Zhang’s awe-inspiring novel introduces two indelible characters whose odyssey is as good as the gold they seek.” —Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n“C Pam Zhang’s debut is ferocious\, dark and gleaming\, a book erupting out of the interstices between myth and dream\, between longing and belonging. How Much of These Hills Is Gold tells us that stories–like people\, like the rough and stunning landscape of California itself–are constantly in the process of being made\, broken\, and finally remade into something tender and new.” –Lauren Groff\, New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies \n“A haunting\, riveting and truly remarkable debut. Zhang writes with the clear-eyed lucidity of ancient myth-makers whose eyes are attuned to the vicissitudes of nature and humanity.”–Chigozie Obioma\, author of Booker Prize finalist An Orchestra of Minorities \n“A ravishingly written revisionist story of the making of the West\, C Pam Zhang’s debut is pure gold.” –Emma Donoghue\, author of Room
URL:https://litseen.com/event/c-pam-zhang-how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Ottessa Moshfegh discusses Death In Her Hands
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author Ottessa Moshfegh discusses and signs copies of her highly anticipated new novel\, Death In Her Hands.\nFrom one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents\, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home \nWhile on her normal daily walk with her dog in the nearby forest woods\, our protagonist comes across a note\, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area\, having moved here from her longtime home after the death of her husband\, and she knows very few people. And she’s a little shaky even on her best days. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession\, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world\, and with mounting excitement and dread\, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. But as we follow her in her investigation\, strange dissonances start to accrue\, and our faith in her grip on reality weakens\, until finally\, just as she seems to be facing some of the darkness in her own past with her late husband\, we are forced to face the prospect that there is either a more innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one–one that strikes closer to home. \nA triumphan \n  \nt blend of horror\, suspense\, and pitch-black comedy\, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Once again\, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned\, only this time the stakes have never been higher. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book\, McGlue\, a novella\, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, and Granta\, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Discovery Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Eileen\, her first novel\, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; My Year of Rest and Relaxation\, her second novel\, was a New York Timesbestseller.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ottessa-moshfegh-discusses-death-in-her-hands/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series with Marie Mutsuki Mockett
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, May 6\, 2020 – 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nSoda Activity Center: Claeys Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nMarie Mutsuki Mockett’s memoir\, Where the Dead Pause\, and the Japanese Say Goodbye examines grief against the backdrop of the 2011 Great East Earthquake in Japan and was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award\, Indies Choice Best Book for Nonfiction and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her new work\, American Harvest: God\, Country and Farming in the Heartland\, forthcoming from Graywolf in April\, 2020\, follows her journey through seven heartland states in the company of evangelical Christian harvesters\, and examines the role of GMOs\, God\, agriculture\, and race in society. \n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\n\nKrista Varela Posell ext. 4762 \nwriters@stmarys-ca.edu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-marie-mutsuki-mockett/
LOCATION:Soda Center\, Claeys Lounge SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Danler: Stray
DESCRIPTION:Stephanie Danler discusses her new memoir\, Stray. \nAbout Stray \nFrom the bestselling author of Sweetbitter\, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction\, and of one woman’s attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past. Stray is a moving\, sometimes devastating\, brilliantly written and ultimately inspiring exploration of the landscapes of damage and survival. \nAfter selling her first novel–a dream she’d worked long and hard for–Stephanie Danler knew she should be happy. Instead\, she found herself driven to face the difficult past she’d left behind a decade ago: a mother disabled by years of alcoholism\, further handicapped by a tragic brain aneurysm; a father who abandoned the family when she was three\, now a meth addict in and out of recovery. After years in New York City she’s pulled home to Southern California by forces she doesn’t totally understand\, haunted by questions of legacy and trauma. Here\, she works toward answers\, uncovering hard truths about her parents and herself as she explores whether it’s possible to change the course of her history. \nLucid and honest\, heart-breaking and full of hope\, Stray is an examination of what we inherit and what we don’t have to\, of what we have to face in ourselves to move forward\, and what it’s like to let go of one’s parents in order to find a peace–and family–of one’s own.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stephanie-danler-stray/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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