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SUMMARY:Aysegül Savas
DESCRIPTION:Aysegül Savas discusses her new novel\, Walking on the Ceiling. \nPraise for Walking on the Ceiling \n“Ayşegül Savaş is an enormous new talent who writes with the rigor of Didion and the tenderness of Sebald. Walking on the Ceiling holds the immediacy of youth and the depth of long-earned wisdom at once. Its elegant voice is sure to summon old memories and longings from each reader\, relighting them anew.”\n—Catherine Lacey\, author of The Answers \n“In Walking on the Ceiling\, Aysegul Savas investigates the inability of any story to accurately evoke lived experience—yet her unconventional narrative succeeds in doing just that. Savas’s celebration of the minutest details of Paris and Istanbul is juxtaposed\, to devastating effect\, against rising political tensions. This quietly intense debut is the product of a wise and probing mind.”\n—Helen Phillips\, author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat \n“Walking on the Ceiling is an elegant meditation on grief\, identity\, memory and homecoming. Moving between Paris and Istanbul\, the novel captures the tangle of narrative around history\, both personal and collective. I fell in love with this book.”\n—Katie Kitamura\, author of A Separation \n“Sensual\, fragile\, scented with hope and loss\, Walking on the Ceiling is a powerful debut and Ayşegül Savaş is an extremely talented rising star.” —Dorthe Nors\, author of Mirror\, Shoulder\, Signal \nAbout Walking on the Ceiling \nA mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul\, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past – her country’s and her own – and her complicated relationship with the famous British writer who longs for her memories. \nAfter her mother’s death\, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore\, she meets M.\, an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city. \nM. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and Nunu tells him about her family\, hoping to impress and inspire him. She recounts the idyllic landscapes of her past\, mythical family meals\, and her elaborate childhood games. As she does so\, she also begins to confront her mother’s silence and anger\, her father’s death\, and the growing unrest in Istanbul. Their intimacy deepens\, so does Nunu’s fear of revealing too much to M. and of giving too much of herself and her Istanbul away. Most of all\, she fears that she will have to face her own guilt about her mother and the narratives she’s told to protect herself from her memories. \nA wise and unguarded glimpse into a young woman’s coming into her own\, Walking on the Ceiling is about memory\, the pleasure of invention\, and those places\, real and imagined\, we can’t escape.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aysegul-savas/
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:Ruchika Tomar
DESCRIPTION:Ruchika Tomar discusses her new novel\, A Prayer for Travelers. \nPraise For A Prayer for Travelers \n“Sometimes characters come along that demand a new kind of novel. The young women at the center of Ruchika Tomar’s A Prayer for Travelers – elusive Penny and wounded Cale – are two spirits hitchhiking through geographies of dislocation and desire. The human collisions in Tomar’s novel are emotionally seismic\, and they leave us haunted and unsettled.”--Adam Johnson\, author of The Orphan Master’s Son \n“Ruchika Tomar is an ace cartographer of the heart and its urgent\, wild\, unruly ways. Radiant with longing\, A Prayer for Travelers is an unforgettable debut.”  —R.O. Kwon\, author of The Incendiaries  \n“A Prayer for Travelers is a novel haunted by missing persons and lost souls\, written in telepathic prose. Ruchika Tomar sees through walls\, around corners\, and into the deep heart of what matters\, and moves us\, the most. A beautiful debut.”—Ben Marcus\, author of The Flame Alphabet \nAbout A Prayer For Travelers \nCale Lambert\, a bookish loner of mysterious parentage\, lives in a dusty town near the California-Nevada border\, a place where coyotes scavenge for backyard dogs and long-haul truckers scavenge for pills and girls. Cale was raised by her grandfather in a loving\, if codependent\, household\, but as soon as she’s left high school his health begins an agonizing decline. Set adrift for the first time\, Cale starts waitressing at the local diner\, where she reconnects with Penélope Reyes\, a charismatic former classmate running mysterious side-hustles to fund her dreams. Penny exposes Cale to the reality that exists beyond their small town\, and the girls become inseparable—-until one terrifying act of violence shatters their world. When Penny vanishes without a trace\, Cale must set off on a dangerous quest across the desert to find her friend\, and discover herself. \nAn audacious debut\, told in deftly interwoven chapters\, A Prayer for Travelers explores the complicated legacy of the American West and the trauma of female experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ruchika-tomar/
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:Aaron Hamburger: Nirvana Is Here
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author Aaron Hamburger (The View from Stalin’s Head\, Faith for Beginners) reads from his new novel Nirvana Is Here. When his ex-husband is accused of sexual harassment in the #metoo era\, history professor Ari Silverman is forced to confront long-buried trauma from his childhood\, where he and his high school crush bonded over the raw emotion of Kurt Cobain’s lyrics in the segregated suburbs of 1990s Detroit. Nirvana Is Here explores issues of identity\, race\, sex\, and family with both poignancy and unexpected humor. “A touching\, finely wrought portrait of secrets lying like buried ordinance beneath ordinary lives. The delicacy and observational wit of Aaron Hamburger’s prose are a marvel.”–Louis Bayard\, author of Courting Mr. Lincoln \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDog Eared Books (Castro) \n\n489 Castro St.\nSan Francisco\, CA 94114
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-hamburger-nirvana-is-here/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Neal Stephenson presents Fall; or\, Dodge in Hell @ Public Works
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to welcome #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves\, Anathem\, Reamde\, andCryptonomicon Neal Stephenson for his new novel Fall; or\, Dodge in Hell\, a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller — Paradise Lost by way of Philip K. Dick — that unfolds in the near future\, in parallel worlds. \n  \nPlease note: This ticketed event will be held at Public Works: 161 Erie St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103. Tickets can be purchased in advance here and are not guaranteed to be available at the door. Please read the ticketing information carefully and direct any questions to events AT booksmith DOT com. \n  \nIn his youth\, Richard Dodge Forthrast founded Corporation 9592\, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years\, Dodge appreciates his comfortable\, unencumbered life\, managing his myriad business interests\, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter\, Sophia. \n  \nOne beautiful autumn day\, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure\, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead and put on life support\, leaving his stunned family and close friends with difficult decisions. Long ago\, when a much younger Dodge drew up his will\, he directed that his body be given to a cryonics company now owned by enigmatic tech entrepreneur Elmo Shepherd. Legally bound to follow the directive despite their misgivings\, Dodges family has his brain scanned and its data structures uploaded and stored in the cloud\, until it can eventually be revived. \n  \nIn the coming years\, technology allows Dodges brain to be turned back on. It is an achievement that is nothing less than the disruption of death itself. An eternal afterlife — the Bitworld — is created\, in which humans continue to exist as digital souls. \n  \nBut this brave new immortal world is not the Utopia it might first seem . . . \n  \nFall\, or Dodge in Hell is pure\, unadulterated fun: a grand drama of analog and digital\, man and machine\, angels and demons\, gods and followers\, the finite and the eternal. In this exhilarating epic\, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. Combining the technological\, philosophical\, and spiritual in one grand myth\, he delivers a mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the modern age. \n  \n\n  \nNeal Stephenson is the bestselling author of the novels Reamde\, Anathem\, The System of the World\, The Confusion\, Quicksilver\, Cryptonomicon\, The Diamond Age\, Snow Crash\, and Zodiac\, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle\, Washington. Author photo by Brady Hall. \n  \n\n  \nThis event is 21+. No exceptions. \n  \nAll tickets are standing room only. Requests for special seating arrangements need to be made at least three days in advance by emailing events@booksmith.com. \n  \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7. Program includes signing. \n  \nSigning details: Mr. Stephenson will sign as many copies of the new novel as guests wish to purchase. He is happy to personalize short inscriptions such as Happy birthday but due to time constraints is not unable to copy out longer inscriptions or make up personal inscriptions on the spot. Backlist can be signed\, but within reason\, and after the major business of signing the hardcover is taken care of. Any major collectors in line with many copies to sign or any guest with many books may be asked to wait until the end of the line. \n  \nPhoto details: Candid photos are welcome\, but again for time constraints Mr. Stephenson will not be able to stop signing and pose. \n  \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \n  \nIf you can’t attend the event but would like to order a signed copy of Fall; or\, Dodge in Hell and/or any of Mr. Stephenson’s books\, order below and add your request in the special field. \n  \nRSVP not required\, but always appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/neal-stephenson-presents-fall-or-dodge-in-hell-public-works/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julia Phillips
DESCRIPTION:Julia Phillips discusses her new novel\, Disappearing Earth. \nPraise for Disappearing Earth \n“I cannot speak too highly of Julia Phillips’s thrilling\, impeccably written and splendidly imagined story\, set with rigorous attention to detail in one of the most volcanically dangerous and beautifully remote corners of the planet.  An exciting beginning from an author whose literary future looks set to be stellar.”—Simon Winchester  \n“Julia Phillips is at once a careful cartographer and gorgeous storyteller. Written with passion and patience\, this is the story of a people and the land that shapes them. A mystery of two missing girls burns at the center of this astonishing debut\, and the complexity of ethnicity\, gender\, hearth and kin illuminates this question and many more.”—Tayari Jones\, author of An American Marriage  \n“A genuine masterpiece\, but one that is easily consumed in a feverish stay-up-all-night bout of reading pleasure. It’s as much a portrait of humanity as of a small Kamchatka community.” —Gary Shteyngart \n“A feat of literary suspense. I felt like a wide-eyed kid reading Julia Phillips’s Disappearing Earth. I could live in her portrayal of this remote part of the world forever.”—Sloane Crosley\, author of I Was Told There’d Be Cake \nAbout Disappearing Earth \nOne August afternoon\, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia\, two girls–sisters\, eight and eleven–go missing. In the ensuing weeks\, then months\, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community\, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. \nTaking us through a year in Kamchatka\, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters\, all connected by the crime: a witness\, a neighbor\, a detective\, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty–densely wooded forests\, open expanses of tundra\, soaring volcanoes\, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska–and into a region as complex as it is alluring\, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered\, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. \nIn a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging\, and through a young writer’s virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination\, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community\, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-phillips/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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