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Fiction: Encounters with Myths and Spirits

Sunday, May 7 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

The Magnes - Auditorium

  • Literary
  • Native American

K-Ming Chang, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Brandon Hobson

At times in these accomplished writers’ fiction, the boundaries between the spirit world and the “real world” grow porous or indiscernible, in ways that expand realities and excite readers’ imaginations. In her latest collection, The Gods of Want,K-Ming Chang poetically entangles old myths with contemporary lives, as ghosts—benevolent, trickster-like, or downright evil—cast their shades over the lives of Taiwanese immigrants in California. Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s Woman of Light also crosses generations—in this case, a young woman, a seer, casts her vision backwards through the joys, horrors, and heartaches of five generations of her Indigenous Chicano family. In The Removed, Brandon Hobson uses Cherokee traditions and visions of the Spirit World to contend with traumas both historical and all too fresh. Woven throughout all of these masterful works of fiction is a reverence for the resonant power of ancient and mysterious tales and spirits.

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Book signing information: Books, Inc., at the venue

With support from the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria

Moderator:

Rita Chang-Eppig
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