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SUMMARY:Ali Eteraz w/ Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Ali Eteraz will also read excerpts from \nNative Believer \npublished by Akashic Books \nAli Eteraz’s much-anticipated debut novel is the story of M.\, a supportive husband\, adventureless dandy\, lapsed believer\, and second-generation immigrant who wants nothing more than to host parties and bring children into the world as full-fledged Americans. As M.’s world gradually fragments around him—a wife with a chronic illness; a best-friend stricken with grief; a boss jeopardizing a respectable career—M. spins out into the pulsating underbelly of Philadelphia\, where he encounters others grappling with fallout from the War on Terror. Among the pornographers and converts to Islam\, punks\, and wrestlers\, M. confronts his existential degradation and the life of a second-class citizen.  \nDarkly comic\, provocative\, and insightful\, Native Believer is a startling vision of the contemporary American experience and the human capacity to shape identity and belonging at all costs. \nAli Eteraz is based at the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto. He is the author of the coming-of-age memoir Children of Dust (HarperCollins) and the surrealist short story collection Falsipedies & Fibsiennes (Guernica Ed.). Eteraz’s short fiction has appeared in the Chicago Quarterly Review\, storySouth\, and Crossborder\, and his nonfiction has been highlighted by NPR\, The New York Times\, and the Guardian. Recently\, Eteraz received the 3 Quarks Daily Arts & Literature Prize judged by Mohsin Hamid\, and served as a consultant to the artist Jenny Holzer on a permanent art installation in Qatar. Eteraz has lived in the Dominican Republic\, Pakistan\, the Persian Gulf\, and Alabama. Native Believer is his debut novel. \nVanessa Hua is an award-winning writer and journalist. For nearly two decades\, she has been writing about Asia and the diaspora. She received a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award for Fiction\, and is a past Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, FRONTLINE/World\, Washington Post\, Guernica\, ZYZZYVA\, and elsewhere. A former staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle\, she has filed stories from China\, South Korea\, Panama\, Burma and Ecuador. Deceit and Other Possibilities\, her debut story collection\, will be published this fall (Willow Books). \nWhat has been said about the work of Ali Eteraz: \n“Ali Eteraz has written a novel\, both heartbreaking and exultant\, about how it feels to get scalded by the great melting pot. He is a writer of tremendous nuance\, sensitivity\, and insight. An enormous triumph in its own right\, Native Believer also points toward an even brighter future for American fiction.”\n—Andrew Ervin\, author of Burning Down George Orwell’s House
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ali-eteraz-w-vanessa-hua/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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