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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Zinzi Clemmons
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nONE OF LIT HUB’S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2026 \nA radically vulnerable and virtuosic inquiry into the pursuit of freedom and the interminable nature of struggle\, from the award-winning author of What We Lose. \nWeaving personal reflections with piercing insight and expansive vision across nine brilliant essays\, Zinzi Clemmons explores the complexities of the elusive concept of freedom. As the daughter of a South African mother and a Trinidadian America father\, she recounts growing up in the largely white\, affluent town of Swarthmore\, Pennsylvania—and her frequent travels to Johannesburg\, where the lofty promise of freedom was all around her. Coming of age amidst the euphoria of South Africa’s first all-race elections\, she grapples with the legacy of Nelson Mandela and the shattered hope in the wake of the Obama era. Clemmons critiques the entrenched inequalities that haunt both countries\, from the tragic loss of a childhood friend to the violence that often befalls women who have the audacity to be free. \nIn a deft mix of memoir\, family history\, criticism\, and reportage\, drawing on a vast range of material from Joan Didion to James Baldwin\, political analysis and history to Clemmons’s own experiences across the globe\, Freedom is an incendiary exploration of race\, sex\, class\, and inheritance. In elegiac prose\, Clemmons trains her discerning eye on American institutions and mythologies\, probing the bounds of liberation and autonomy to interrogate our most enduring quest—the relentless pursuit of freedom for all. \nAbout the Author \nZinzi Clemmons is the author of What We Lose\, which was a finalist for the NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. A National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree\, she was raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father. A cofounder of the literary journal Apogee\, she lives in Northern California\, where she serves as director of the creative writing program at the University of California\, Davis.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/author-talk-zinzi-clemmons/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader Bookstore\, 617 2nd St.\, Davis\, 95616
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SUMMARY:Interview with the Vampire Trivia Night
DESCRIPTION:How well do you know the Anne Rice’s Interview with Vampire? Test your knowledge at Avid Reader’s literary trivia night with Julie Soto! \nTHE VAMPIRE LESTAT IS HERE! Let’s celebrate with a delicious Interview with the Vampire themed trivia night featuring local author: JULIE SOTO! \nThe quiz questions will focus on Anne Rice’s novel\, the TV show\, literary vampires\, and pop culture vampires. We recommend studying or bringing your vampire obsessed friend! There will be refreshments\, excellent company\, moderately challenging trivia\, plus a photo opportunity with Julie Soto! Signed copies of Julie’s books will be available for purchase. Each participant must purchase a ticket to register. \nIf you intend to compete in a group\, you can let the quizmaster know when you check in on the day of the event. You may compete in a group of up to 6 people.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/interview-with-the-vampire-trivia-night/
LOCATION:Hilton Garden Inn Davis\, 110 F St\, Davis\, CA\, 95616\, United States
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Tom Lin
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nFrom the author of the Carnegie Medal in Fiction winner The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu comes a tantalizing\, American West saga about a Chinese American family trying to survive on their Dakota farm as a powerful\, mysterious\, and morally dubious military secret shapes their lives. \nWhen Saul Keng Hsiu and his wife\, Mei Lee\, move from China to the United States to take possession of a 160-acre homestead bequeathed to them by a distant relative\, all they have are the possessions on their back\, some hidden gold\, and a pocketful of chrysanthemum seeds. After a rocky start and a long\, harsh winter\, the couple find themselves successfully raising chrysanthemums and livestock\, and soon after\, a daughter\, Mara. \nBut when representatives from the US Army Corps of Engineers buy an acre of the Hsiu’s farmland and begin building a missile silo\, the inexplicable starts to occur: Mara can commune with the animals on the farm\, Mei develops a hidden talent for augury\, and the chrysanthemums become impervious to everything. When the Hsius learn that the project on their farm is an effort to make America’s nuclear deterrent invulnerable\, they see firsthand the long arm of power and empire. \nIn the years and generations that follow\, increasingly impacted by the silo and its residue\, the Hsius experience strange\, wondrous\, and tragic events on their farm. An ambitious epic and an ode to the beauty and glory of our connection to the natural world\, Babylon\, South Dakota upends the idea of “strangers in a strange land” to become a classic American story. It is a daring novel about how choices reverberate across generations and asks us what we owe to one another. \nTIME Magazine’s Most Anticipated Books of the Year | Town & Country’s Best Books of Spring 2026 | New York Times Book Review’s 32 Novels We’re Excited About This Spring | The Spokesman Review’s 12 upcoming books we’re excited to read \nAbout the Author \nTom Lin was born in China and immigrated to the United States when he was four. A graduate of Pomona College\, he also holds a PhD from the University of California\, Davis. His first novel\, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu\, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. He teaches English and creative writing at the University of Iowa.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/author-talk-tom-lin/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader Bookstore\, 617 2nd St.\, Davis\, 95616
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