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Sunny's Bookshop - Located inside our floral shop Shades of Petals (Tarzana, CA)
Join us to celebrate Mike Fu's debut novel MASQUERADE from Tin House! Mike will be in conversation with authors Tomas Moniz and Genevieve Hudson for this special night of reading, signing, and Q&A's.
ABOUT MASQUERADE
“A surreal, queer, coming-of-age mystery set between New York and Shanghai.”―TIME, A Best Book of Fall
A Best Book of October at People, Chicago Review of Books, and The Millions
Newly single Meadow Liu is house-sitting for his friend, artist Selma Shimizu, when he stumbles upon The Masquerade, a novel about a masked ball in 1930s Shanghai. The author’s name is the same as Meadow’s own in Chinese, Liu Tian—a coincidence that proves to be the first of many strange happenings. Over the course of a single summer, Meadow must contend with a possibly haunted apartment, a mirror that plays tricks, a stranger speaking in riddles at the bar where he works, as well as a startling revelation about a former lover. And when Selma vanishes from her artist residency, Meadow is forced to question everything he knows as the boundaries between real and imagined begin to blur.
Exploring social, cultural, and sexual identities in New York, Shanghai, and beyond, Mike Fu’s Masquerade is a skillfully layered, brilliantly interwoven debut novel of friendship, queer longing, and worlds on the brink, asking how we can find ourselves among ghosts of all kinds, and who we can trust when nothing—and no one—is as it seems.
ABOUT MIKE FU
Mike Fu is a writer, translator, and editor based in Japan. He has studied in Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Suzhou, and Tokyo. His Chinese-English translation of Stories of the Sahara by the late Taiwanese cultural icon Sanmao was named a Favorite Book of the Year by The Paris Review and shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Prose. He is a cofounder and former translation editor of The Shanghai Literary Review, and currently a PhD candidate at Waseda University.
ABOUT TOMAS MONIZ
Tomas Moniz is a latinx writer living in Oakland, CA. His debut novel, Big Familia, was a FINALIST for the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel 2020 Award, a FINALIST for a LAMBDA 2020 award for Bisexual Fiction and a FINALIST for the Foreword Review Indies Award. He teaches at Berkeley City College and the Antioch MFA program. Tomas's new novel, ALL FRIENDS ARE NECESSARY is out now. He has stuff on the internet but loves penpals: PO Box 3555, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back.
ABOUT GENEVIEVE HUDSON
Genevieve Hudson is an American writer. They’re the author of the novel Boys of Alabama which O, The Oprah Magazine, Lit Hub, and Ms. Magazine selected as a recommended book to read in 2020; the short story collection Pretend We Live Here, which was a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist; and the memoir-hybrid A Little in Love with Everyone. They have received fellowships from the Fulbright Program, The MacDowell Colony, Caldera Arts, and The Vermont Studio Center. They live in Portland, OR. Follow them on Twitter @genhudson and Instagram @gkhudson
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
18604 Ventura Blvd, 18604 Ventura Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States
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