Join us on Wednesday, March 19 at 7pm when we celebrate Muriel Leung's novel, How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster, with K-Ming Chang at 9th Ave!
Free to Attend, Please RSVP
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below:
https://youtube.com/live/ghwTyttKqmQ
Praise for How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster
"Muriel Leung gives us such elegance and tenderness and visions of loss and connection inside this broken world." -Aimee Bender, author of The Butterfly Lampshade
"Muriel Leung builds a hypnotic world where the real and the spectral are layered like watercolors. To read this book is to be heartbroken, haunted, and, ultimately, healed." -Jenny Xie, author of Holding Pattern
"Astonishing . . . writhes with heartbreak and wonder. Visionary, horny, and surprising at every turn, this novel is a triumph." -Henry Hoke, author of Open Throat
About How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster
A dark and tender debut set against a writhing backdrop of postapocalyptic New York City.
Acid rainstorms have transformed New York City into a toxic wasteland, cutting its remaining citizens off from one another. In one apartment building, an unlikely family of humans and ghosts survives. Mira reels from a devastating breakup with her partner, Mal, whose whereabouts are unknown, while her mother is plagued by furious dreams and her grandfather, Grandpa Why, stakes his claims as a rambunctious ghost. Across the hall, the cockroach Shin, also a ghost. As the world around them worsens, each character must learn to redefine what it means to live, die, and love at the end of the world.
About Muriel Leung
From Queens, New York, Muriel Leung is the author of the novel How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster (W.W. Norton & Company) in addition to other books that include the Poetry Society of America's 2022 Four Quartets Prize winning Imagine Us, The Swarm (Nightboat Books), Bone Confetti (Noemi Press) and Images Seen to Images Felt (Antenna) in collaboration with artist Kristine Thompson. She serves on the Board of Directors for Apogee Journal, a journal dedicated to uplifting historically marginalized writers and artists. She received her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from University of Southern California where she was an Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World fellow. She is permanent faculty at the California Institute of the Arts.
About K-Ming Chang
K-Ming Chang is a Lambda Literary Award winner, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and an O. Henry Prize Winner. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors' choice novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Otherwise Award. Her story collection GODS OF WANT (One World/Random House) won a Lambda Literary Award. Her latest books are ORGAN MEATS (One World, 2023) and a novella titled CECILIA (Coffee House Press, 2024). Her next two books, a novel and short story collection, are forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.
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Free to Attend, Please RSVP
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below:
https://youtube.com/live/ghwTyttKqmQ
Praise for How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster
"Muriel Leung gives us such elegance and tenderness and visions of loss and connection inside this broken world." -Aimee Bender, author of The Butterfly Lampshade
"Muriel Leung builds a hypnotic world where the real and the spectral are layered like watercolors. To read this book is to be heartbroken, haunted, and, ultimately, healed." -Jenny Xie, author of Holding Pattern
"Astonishing . . . writhes with heartbreak and wonder. Visionary, horny, and surprising at every turn, this novel is a triumph." -Henry Hoke, author of Open Throat
About How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster
A dark and tender debut set against a writhing backdrop of postapocalyptic New York City.
Acid rainstorms have transformed New York City into a toxic wasteland, cutting its remaining citizens off from one another. In one apartment building, an unlikely family of humans and ghosts survives. Mira reels from a devastating breakup with her partner, Mal, whose whereabouts are unknown, while her mother is plagued by furious dreams and her grandfather, Grandpa Why, stakes his claims as a rambunctious ghost. Across the hall, the cockroach Shin, also a ghost. As the world around them worsens, each character must learn to redefine what it means to live, die, and love at the end of the world.
About Muriel Leung
From Queens, New York, Muriel Leung is the author of the novel How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster (W.W. Norton & Company) in addition to other books that include the Poetry Society of America's 2022 Four Quartets Prize winning Imagine Us, The Swarm (Nightboat Books), Bone Confetti (Noemi Press) and Images Seen to Images Felt (Antenna) in collaboration with artist Kristine Thompson. She serves on the Board of Directors for Apogee Journal, a journal dedicated to uplifting historically marginalized writers and artists. She received her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from University of Southern California where she was an Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World fellow. She is permanent faculty at the California Institute of the Arts.
About K-Ming Chang
K-Ming Chang is a Lambda Literary Award winner, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and an O. Henry Prize Winner. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors' choice novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Otherwise Award. Her story collection GODS OF WANT (One World/Random House) won a Lambda Literary Award. Her latest books are ORGAN MEATS (One World, 2023) and a novella titled CECILIA (Coffee House Press, 2024). Her next two books, a novel and short story collection, are forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.
Join us on Wednesday, March 19 at 7pm when we celebrate Muriel Leung's novel, How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster, with K-Ming Chang at 9th Ave!
Free to Attend, Please RSVP
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below:
https://youtube.com/live/ghwTyttKqmQ
Praise for How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster
"Muriel Leung gives us such elegance and tenderness and visions of loss and connection inside this broken world." -Aimee Bender, author of The Butterfly Lampshade
"Muriel Leung builds a hypnotic world where the real and the spectral are layered like watercolors. To read this book is to be heartbroken, haunted, and, ultimately, healed." -Jenny Xie, author of Holding Pattern
"Astonishing . . . writhes with heartbreak and wonder. Visionary, horny, and surprising at every turn, this novel is a triumph." -Henry Hoke, author of Open Throat
About How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster
A dark and tender debut set against a writhing backdrop of postapocalyptic New York City.
Acid rainstorms have transformed New York City into a toxic wasteland, cutting its remaining citizens off from one another. In one apartment building, an unlikely family of humans and ghosts survives. Mira reels from a devastating breakup with her partner, Mal, whose whereabouts are unknown, while her mother is plagued by furious dreams and her grandfather, Grandpa Why, stakes his claims as a rambunctious ghost. Across the hall, the cockroach Shin, also a ghost. As the world around them worsens, each character must learn to redefine what it means to live, die, and love at the end of the world.
About Muriel Leung
From Queens, New York, Muriel Leung is the author of the novel How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster (W.W. Norton & Company) in addition to other books that include the Poetry Society of America's 2022 Four Quartets Prize winning Imagine Us, The Swarm (Nightboat Books), Bone Confetti (Noemi Press) and Images Seen to Images Felt (Antenna) in collaboration with artist Kristine Thompson. She serves on the Board of Directors for Apogee Journal, a journal dedicated to uplifting historically marginalized writers and artists. She received her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from University of Southern California where she was an Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World fellow. She is permanent faculty at the California Institute of the Arts.
About K-Ming Chang
K-Ming Chang is a Lambda Literary Award winner, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and an O. Henry Prize Winner. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors' choice novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Otherwise Award. Her story collection GODS OF WANT (One World/Random House) won a Lambda Literary Award. Her latest books are ORGAN MEATS (One World, 2023) and a novella titled CECILIA (Coffee House Press, 2024). Her next two books, a novel and short story collection, are forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.
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Free to Attend, Please RSVP
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below:
https://youtube.com/live/ghwTyttKqmQ
Praise for How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster
"Muriel Leung gives us such elegance and tenderness and visions of loss and connection inside this broken world." -Aimee Bender, author of The Butterfly Lampshade
"Muriel Leung builds a hypnotic world where the real and the spectral are layered like watercolors. To read this book is to be heartbroken, haunted, and, ultimately, healed." -Jenny Xie, author of Holding Pattern
"Astonishing . . . writhes with heartbreak and wonder. Visionary, horny, and surprising at every turn, this novel is a triumph." -Henry Hoke, author of Open Throat
About How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster
A dark and tender debut set against a writhing backdrop of postapocalyptic New York City.
Acid rainstorms have transformed New York City into a toxic wasteland, cutting its remaining citizens off from one another. In one apartment building, an unlikely family of humans and ghosts survives. Mira reels from a devastating breakup with her partner, Mal, whose whereabouts are unknown, while her mother is plagued by furious dreams and her grandfather, Grandpa Why, stakes his claims as a rambunctious ghost. Across the hall, the cockroach Shin, also a ghost. As the world around them worsens, each character must learn to redefine what it means to live, die, and love at the end of the world.
About Muriel Leung
From Queens, New York, Muriel Leung is the author of the novel How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster (W.W. Norton & Company) in addition to other books that include the Poetry Society of America's 2022 Four Quartets Prize winning Imagine Us, The Swarm (Nightboat Books), Bone Confetti (Noemi Press) and Images Seen to Images Felt (Antenna) in collaboration with artist Kristine Thompson. She serves on the Board of Directors for Apogee Journal, a journal dedicated to uplifting historically marginalized writers and artists. She received her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from University of Southern California where she was an Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World fellow. She is permanent faculty at the California Institute of the Arts.
About K-Ming Chang
K-Ming Chang is a Lambda Literary Award winner, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and an O. Henry Prize Winner. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors' choice novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Otherwise Award. Her story collection GODS OF WANT (One World/Random House) won a Lambda Literary Award. Her latest books are ORGAN MEATS (One World, 2023) and a novella titled CECILIA (Coffee House Press, 2024). Her next two books, a novel and short story collection, are forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.
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