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Join critically acclaimed and award-winning author Kim Fu in the Readings Gallery for her latest book "The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts"!RESERVE YOUR SEATS HERE: www.eventbrite.com/e/1975358110283
"Addictive…. I looked up from this book and saw everything around me in higher definition." -Lucy Tan, author of "What We Were Promised" and "Tiger’s Mouth"
In the aftermath of her mother’s death, Eleanor is unmoored. For years, her mother orchestrated every detail of her life—from meals, to laundry, to finances—so that Eleanor could focus on her career as a therapist. Left to navigate the world on her own, Eleanor clings to her mother’s final directive: use her inheritance to buy a house.
Desperate to obey her mother one last time, but finding few options she can afford, Eleanor impulsively buys a model home in a valley-turned-construction site, a picturesque development steeped in a shadowy history. It feels like a fresh start, until the rain comes—an endless, torrential downpour. As water seeps in through the house’s cracks, the line between what is real and what is not begins to blur. Haunted by the stories of her patients, a stream of workmen and bureaucrats she can’t trust, and visions of ghosts from her past and present, Eleanor’s reality unravels, and she is forced to reckon with the secrets she’s buried and the desperate choices she’s made.
Kim Fu is the author of two novels, a collection of poetry, and most recently, the story collection "Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century," winner of the Washington State Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Book Award, and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, as well as a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Ignyte Awards, and the Shirley Jackson Awards. Fu lives in Seattle, Washington.
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Village Books in Fairhaven, 1200 11th St,Bellingham, Washington, United States
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