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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff + Anthony Marra
DESCRIPTION:Praise for The Jungle Around Us \n“This masterful collection records the long psychic toll of the twentieth century’s traumas\, offering portraits of people in various kinds of exile: displaced from their countries\, or uneasy in their hometowns\, or somehow alien in their own bodies and minds. Anne Raeff’s exquisite stories are remarkable for their combination of intimacy and reverence for the mysteries and private griefs her characters fold their lives around. Seldom have I read work so confident in the power of what’s left unspoken and in the deep eloquence of gesture. The Jungle Around Us is a haunting and breathtakingly beautiful book.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \n  \n“The stories in The Jungle Around Us do not try to make sense of the world–they are the world. A world of uncanny sharpness that is as bold as it is striking in its uncompromising\, haunting depictions of longing and uncertainty and grief and bliss. The jungle Anne Raeff proposes us to enter is\, in reality\, not around us\, in the intricated destinations of displacement where this book takes place–from Bolivia to Austria\, from Leningrad to Albuquerque\, from Harlem to El Tambor–but within ourselves. The protagonists in these stories are commanded by loss and desire and uprootedness and the scalding need for human connection\, but unlike those from any other work of fiction that might be too self-conscious of its own ambitions\, they struggle handling these emotions. Raeff’s characters are too complex\, too fully fleshed out\, too human to know what step to take next\, and this is\, perhaps\, the biggest feat of many she has achieved with this ravishing collection. Her talent is rare and transfixing\, and this book marks the arrival of a marvelous new voice.” —Antonio Ruiz-Camacho\, author of Barefoot Dogs \n  \nWhile struggling with fear\, danger\, and displacement\, the characters of “The Jungle around Us” form strange and powerful bonds in distant and unlikely places. A family that has escaped Vienna ends up on the edge of the Amazon\, where the parents fight yellow fever and the daughter falls in love with a village boy. Two sisters learn lessons about race and war during the Columbia University riots of1968. A young girl confronts death when her former babysitter is mysteriously murdered. In Paraguay\, two adult sisters confront their loneliness while their precocious young charge faces off with a monkey. Raeff’s stories are about embracing the world though the world contains everything we fear. \n  \nAnne Raeff is a high school teacher at East Palo Alto Academy\, where she teaches English and history. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica\, among others. Her first novel is Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia. \n  \nAnthony Marra is the New York Times-bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\, longlisted for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction\, and the Barnes and Noble Discover Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff-anthony-marra/
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:iO Tillett Wright
DESCRIPTION:iO Tillett Wright presents Darling Days\, an extraordinary coming of age memoir set in the urban bohemia of 1980s New York’s Lower East Side\, where punk\, poverty\, heroin\, and art ruled the roost. Raised by single mother Rhona\, a mercurial Glamazon showgirl\, iO was encouraged from an early age to break boundaries. When a group of boys refuse to let six-year-old iO play ball\, iO instantly adopts a new persona\, becoming a boy\, a choice Rhona celebrates. It is the start of a profound exploration of gender and identity through the tenderest years\, and the beginning of a life invented and reinvented at every step. Harrowing and hilarious\, Darling Days is a provocative examination of culture and identity\, and of the courage and resilience of each child’s unique expression. \niO Tillett Wright is an artist\, activist\, actor\, speaker\, TV host and writer. iO’s work deals with identity\, be it through photography and the Self Evident Truths Project/We Are You campaign or on television as the co-host of MTV’s Suspect. iO has exhibited artwork in New York and Tokyo and was a featured contributor on Underground Culture to T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Her photography has been featured in GQ\, Elle\, New York Magazine\, and The New York Times Magazine. iO is a regular speaker at universities\, discussing expanding one’s circle of normalcy and embracing those that are different than you. A native New Yorker\, iO is now based in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/io-tillett-wright/
LOCATION:Second Act\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Vanessa Hua Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Vanessa Hua presents her debut collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities\, in conversation withZYZZYVA editor Oscar Villalon. The characters in these stories vividly illustrate the conflict between self and society\, tradition and change: a Hong Kong movie idol flees a sex scandal; an obedient daughter lies about attending Stanford; a Chinatown elder is summoned to his ancestral village\, and a Korean-American pastor hides a secret agenda. Hua explores the clash of cultures and the complex\, shifting allegiances we carry with us as we make our way forward in a new land. Deceit and Other Possibilities marks the emergence of a remarkable new writer. \nVanessa Hua has appeared in The Atlantic\, New York Times\, FRONTLINE/World\,Washington Post\, and elsewhere.  Previously\, she was a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle\, and has filed stories from China\, South Korea\, Panama\, Burma and Ecuador. She received a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s Phelan Award for Fiction\, and is a former Steinbeck Fellow in Fiction at San Jose State University. Her novel\, A River of Stars\, is forthcoming from Ballantine. \nOscar Villalon is the managing editor of ZYZZVA\, the former books editor at the San Francisco Chronicle and a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. His writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and The Believer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vanessa-hua-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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