About this Event
Sunny's Bookshop - Located inside our floral shop Shades of Petals (Tarzana, CA)
Join us to celebrate Muriel Leung's debut novel HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A TIME OF UNNAMEABLE DISASTER. Muriel will be in conversation with Myriam Gurba for this special night of reading, signing, and Q&A's.
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 (W.W. Norton & Company) in addition to other books that include the Poetry Society of America’s 2022 Four Quartets Prize winning (Nightboat Books), (Noemi Press) and (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 MYRIAM GURBA
Myriam Gurba is a writer and activist. Her first book, the short story collection Dahlia Season, won the Edmund White Award for debut fiction. O, the Oprah Magazine, ranked her true crime memoir Mean as one of the best LGBTQ books of all time. Creep, her most recent book, was a finalist for a National Book Critics’ Circle award in criticism, and won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Vox, and Paris Review have published her work. She is a co-founder of Dignidad Literaria, a grassroots organization committed to combatting racism in the book world. She is active in the anti-rape movement.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
18604 Ventura Blvd, 18604 Ventura Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States
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