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SUMMARY:Vanessa Hua in conversation with Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:In a powerful debut novel about modern-day motherhood\, immigration\, and identity\, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream.“Vanessa Hua’s debut is an utterly absorbing novel.”—Celeste Ng\, author of Little Fires Everywhere \nHoled up with other mothers-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles\, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China\, where she worked in a factory and fell in love with the owner\, Boss Yeung. Now she’s carrying his baby. Already married with three daughters\, Boss Yeung is overjoyed because the doctors have confirmed that he will finally have the son he has always wanted. To ensure that his child has every advantage\, Boss Yeung has shipped Scarlett off to give birth on American soil. U.S. citizenship will open doors for their little prince. \nAs Scarlett awaits the baby’s arrival\, she chokes down bitter medicinal stews and spars with her imperious housemates. The only one who fits in even less is Daisy\, a spirited teenager and fellow unwed mother who is being kept apart from her American boyfriend. \nThen a new sonogram of Scarlett’s baby reveals the unexpected. Panicked\, she escapes by hijacking a van—only to discover that she has a stowaway: Daisy\, who intends to track down the father of her child. The two flee to San Francisco’s bustling Chinatown\, where Scarlett will join countless immigrants desperately trying to seize their piece of the American dream. What Scarlett doesn’t know is that her baby’s father is not far behind her. \nA River of Stars is an entertaining\, wildly unpredictable adventure\, told with empathy and wit by an author the San Francisco Chronicle says “has a deep understanding of the pressure of submerged emotions and polite\, face-saving deceptions.” It’s a vivid examination of home and belonging\, and a moving portrayal of a woman determined to build her own future. \nVanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of a short story collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities. For two decades\, she has been writing\, in journalism and fiction\, about Asia and the Asian diaspora. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing\, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and The Washington Post. A River of Stars is Vanessa Hua’s first novel. \nPraise for A River of Stars \n“[A] powerful debut.”—Entertainment Weekly  \n“A vibrant\, fascinating look into womanhood and how so many women’s lives are shaped by their relationship to the powerful men within them . . . Hua infuses this story with spirit and humor\, exploring the ways in which pregnancy and motherhood can be both liberating and entrapping for the women who endure them. It’s a remarkable novel\, one which makes clear the many ways in which women must struggle to make their lives their own.”—Nylon \n“Stellar.”—Bustle \n“[A] skillful debut novel . . . that is heartbreaking and\, at turns\, hilarious. . . . Hua wonderfully evokes the exigencies of lives at the margins of American culture by revealing Scarlett’s enduring ingenuity as she navigates near-destitute single motherhood.”—Publishers Weekly \n“A River of Stars is a twenty-first-century immigrant story about the terror\, drama\, and desperation of being undocumented and yet unable to leave.”—The Village Voice \n“Fans of Celeste Ng . . . might find their next read right here.”—Elle \n“[This] gripping tale of Scarlett Chen\, a Chinese boss’s mistress sent to America to birth a child\, is as moving as it is entertaining.”—Electric Lit  \n“In A River of Stars\, Vanessa Hua illuminates the lives of her characters with energy\, verve\, and heart. Hua tracks the minutest emotional terrain of these characters while simultaneously interrogating the cultural and economic forces that shape their worlds. This book holds your attention until the very last page.”—Emma Cline\, New York Times bestselling author of The Girls \n“A River of Stars is a page-turner\, a riveting story of parenthood\, migration\, and the choices we make to survive. Fierce and determined\, resourceful and resilient\, Scarlett Chen is an unforgettable protagonist you can’t help but root for.”—Lisa Ko\, author of the National Book Award finalist The Leavers \n“How does Scarlett Chen—pregnant\, with her immigration status in peril—make her way in America without friends\, language\, and money? Vanessa Hua’s compelling A River of Stars is a story of resistance\, survival\, and self-determination in a world that is seemingly indifferent to the needs of the poor and disenfranchised.”—Min Jin Lee\, author of National Book Award finalist Pachinko
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vanessa-hua/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck presents Moby Dick
DESCRIPTION:It’s back to school\, so this month\, we’re taking our harpoons to noteworthy National Treasure and Greatest Love Story Ever Told: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. \nFeatured writers TBA. \n$12 advance\, $15 door\, ticket includes *open bar* for 21+\, and admission to the afterparty at The Alembic (1725 Haight). Seats tend to sell out fast; we encourage you to buy early. \nPlease remember: Shipwreck tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable. \n  \nTickets on sale now.  \n  \n— \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n“I do not care for this.” \n  \n— \n  \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-moby-dick/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Forrest Gander\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this rare reading at The Poetry Center by poet-translator — and SF State alum — Forrest Gander\, just in time for the debut of his new book of poetry\, Be With (New Directions\, 2018)\, his first book of poems since the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle nominee volume\, Core Samples from the World (New Directions\, 2011). Gander last read his work for The Poetry Center in 1996\, so this is an overdue return. This event\, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts\, is free and open to the public. \nForrest Gander\, a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature\, was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in Petaluma\, California. Gander’s book Core Samples from the World\, a meditation on the ways we are revised and translated in encounters with the foreign\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among his recent titles are the novel The Trace (New Directions\, 2015)\, and two translations: Then Come Back: the Lost Neruda Poems (Copper Canyon\, 2016) and Alice\, Iris\, Red Horse: Selected Poems of Gozo Yoshimasu (editor\, with multiple translators; New Directions\, 2016). His first book of poems since 2011\, Be With\, is just out from New Directions. Gander is the recipient of grants from the Library of Congress\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, Whiting and United States Artists Foundations\, he taught for many years as the AK Seaver Professor of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore at forrestgander.com\nVIDEO: Forrest Gander and Raúl Zurita reading at the Woodberry Poetry Room\, Harvard University \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/forrest-gander-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the San Francisco launch for the new W. W. Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction\, featuring readings by local contributors. More TBA soon. Save the date and join us! \n  \nA new collection of very short stories selected by Flash Fiction editor James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro. \n  \nAll of the stories in this book are exceptionally short\, revealing themselves in no more than 300 words. With a foreword by Robert Shapard and an afterword by Christopher Merrill\, this book brings you fresh approaches to an exacting form that demands precision\, a species of brevity that is surprisingly expansive. Writers say the pieces are hard to compose\, but readers say they are easy to appreciate\, a pleasure to envision\, a wonder to watch life spun out and painted in small places. Real and surreal\, lyrical and prosaic\, here are 135 stories by 89 authors\, certain to make you think. \n  \n\n  \n“Reading these wonderful tiny fictions is like stealing food from the refrigerator before\, or after\, dinner. A sublime luxury.” – Frederick Barthelme\, New World Writing \n  \n“These micro fictions violate the laws of geophysics by compressing whole lives / whole worlds / whole heartbreaks into something like diamonds: bright\, riven\, reflective\, edged\, wonderful\, and hard enough to cut through glass.” – Pam Houston\, author of Contents May Have Shifted \n  \n“New Micro’s quick\, bright stories are\, like our lives\, as brief as lightning in the blinding dark. They offer us essential truth without the inessential facts.” – John Dufresne\, author of Flash! Writing the Very Short Story \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. Doors and the bar open at 7pm. The event starts at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-micro-exceptionally-short-fiction/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kamila Shamsie
DESCRIPTION:Kamila Shamsie joins us to celebrate the paperback release of her new novel\, Home Fire. \n\nPraise for Home Fire \n\n“Home Fire left me awestruck\, shaken\, on the edge of my chair\, filled with admiration for her courage and ambition.” —Peter Carey\, Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda \n\n“Shamsie’s simple\, lucid prose plays in perfect harmony with the heartbeat of modern times. Home Fire deftly reveals all the ways in which the political is as personal as the personal is political. No novel could be as timely.” —Aminatta Forna\, author of The Memory of Love \n\n“A searing novel about the choices people make for love\, and for the place they call home.” —Laila Lalami\, Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Moor’s Account \n\n“A good novelist blurs the imaginary line between us and them; Kamila Shamsie is the rare writer who makes one forget there was ever such a thing as a line. Home Fire is a remarkable novel\, both timely and necessary.” —Rabih Alameddine\, author of An Unnecessary Woman \n\nAbout Home Fire \n\nIsma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death\, she’s accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can’t stop worrying about Aneeka\, her beautiful\, headstrong sister back in London\, or their brother\, Parvaiz\, who’s disappeared in pursuit of his own dream\, to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. When he resurfaces half a globe away\, Isma’s worst fears are confirmed. \nThen Eamonn enters the sisters’ lives. Son of a powerful political figure\, he has his own birthright to live up to—or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz’s salvation? Suddenly\, two families’ fates are inextricably\, devastatingly entwined\, in this searing novel that asks: What sacrifices will we make in the name of love?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kamila-shamsie/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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