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Historical Fiction: The American West

Saturday, May 6 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

The Magnes - Auditorium

  • Comics & Graphics
  • Literary
  • Mystery, Crime & Thrillers
  • Native American

Rina Ayuyang, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Jane Smiley
  • Derek Shapton

The sweeping landscapes of the American West offer writers a broad canvas on which to set epic stories. Three masterful storytellers will transport us through the rich and complex history of California and Colorado as only the best fiction can. In her debut novel, Woman of Light, Kali Fajardo-Anstine traces Denver’s history backwards from the 1930s through five generations of Indigenous women, offering a “rich, multicultural perspective of the American West” (Bookpage). In her rollicking historical novel A Dangerous Business, Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley combines elements of a serial-killer mystery, a classic Western, and a feminist empowerment narrative, all set in the rough-and-tumble environs of Gold Rush–era Monterey. And, in The Man in the McIntosh Suit, graphic novelist Rina Ayuyang offers a fresh take on Depression-Era noir, as a Filipino farm worker turned amateur sleuth comes face to face with the gangsters and pool sharks of San Francisco in 1929. Blaise Zerega, editorial director of Alta Journal, will be our guide on this epic journey through time and place.

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Book signing information: Books Inc., at the venue

With support from the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria

Moderator:

Blaise Zerenga
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