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SUMMARY:New Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Featured writers: Donna Hemans, Jessica Shattuck, and Yukiko Tominaga; Moderator: Michael Zapata\nNew novels including a bestselling author’s latest, a notable debut, and a story of family schism drive this program about today’s fiction.\nBook signing times (all signings take place in the Winter Garden, 9th Floor)\n🖊️Donna Hemans: 3:30 – 3:50\n🖊️Jessica Shattuck: 3:30 – 3:50\n🖊️Yukiko Tominaga: 3:30 – 3:50\n🖊️Michael Zapata: 3:30 – 3:50\nFULL SCHEDULE ( https://americanwritersmuseum.org/american-writers-festival/schedule/ )\nAbout the writers:\n\n\n\n\n\nDONNA HEMANS is the author of the novels River Woman and Tea by the Sea. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Slice, Shenandoah, Electric Literature, Ms. Magazine and Crab Orchard Review. She received her undergraduate degree in English and Media Studies from Fordham University and an MFA from American University. She lives in Maryland and is the owner of DC Writers Room, a co-working studio for writers.\nJESSICA SHATTUCK is the New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the Castle; The Hazards of Good Breeding, a New York Times Notable Book and finalist for the PEN/Winship Award; and Perfect Life. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Glamour, Mother Jones, and Wired, among other publications.\nYUKIKO TOMINAGA was born and raised in Japan. She was a finalist for the 2020 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, selected by Roxane Gay. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Chicago Quarterly Review, The Bellingham Review, among other publications. She also works at Counterpoint Press where she helps to introduce never-before-translated books from Japan to English language readers. See: Loss. See Also: Love. is her first book.\nMICHAEL ZAPATA is a founding editor of MAKE Literary Magazine and the author of the novel The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, winner of the 2020 Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction, finalist for the 2020 Heartland Booksellers Award in Fiction, and a Best Book of the Year for NPR, the A.V. Club, Los Angeles Public Library, and BookPage, among others. He is a recipient of a Meier Foundation Artist Achievement Award. He is on the faculty of StoryStudio Chicago and the MFA faculty of Northwestern University. As a public-school educator, he taught literature and writing in high schools servicing drop out students. He currently lives in Chicago with his family.\nBooks by these writers:\nVIEW FESTIVAL READING LIST\n\nThe House of Plain Truth by Donna Hemans\nA lyrical, lush, evocative story about a fractured Jamaican family and a daughter determined to reclaim her home.\n\nLast House by Jessica Shattuck\nFrom the bestselling author of The Women in the Castle comes a sweeping story of a nation on the rise, and one family’s deeply complicated relationship to the resource that built their fortune and fueled their greatest tragedy.\n\nThe Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata\nThe mesmerizing story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript unites decades later in post-Katrina New Orleans.\n\nSee: Loss. See Also: Love. by Yukiko Tominaga\nA tender, slyly comical, and shamelessly honest debut novel following a Japanese widow raising her son between worlds with the help of her Jewish mother-in-law as she wrestles with grief, loss, and—strangest of all—joy.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://americanwritersmuseum.org/program-calendar/american-writers-festival-new-fiction/
CATEGORIES:AAPI Voices,American Writers Festival,Black Voices,Historical Fiction,Novel
LOCATION:Harold Washington Library Center
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