About this Event
National Book Award–honored author Ingrid Rojas Contreras (The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir, 2022 Nonfiction Finalist) will be the special featured guest of the monthly Kauaʻi Writers Garden.
Doors open at 5pm, and the program will begin at 5:30pm. The event will include readings, conversation, writing time, and audience Q&A followed by a book signing.
Free copies of The Man Who Could Move Clouds will be available for attendees, first come, first served, and Fruit of the Drunken Tree: A Novel will be available for sale, with thanks to Ha Coffee.
Presented in partnership with the Kauaʻi Writers Garden, Rice Street Business Association, and Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities.
ABOUT INGRID ROJAS CONTRERAS:
Bestselling novelist Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ breakout novel, Fruit of the Drunken Tree, earned the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, an Indie Next Pick, and a Barnes and Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection. Rojas Contreras’ latest book The Man Who Could Move Clouds was named a “Best Book of the Year” by TIME Magazine, NPR, Vulture, People, The Boston Globe, Esquire; a Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Pulitzer; and a winner of the California Book Award. She is at work on a new novel.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Hale Līhu‘e, 4286 Rice Street, Lihue, United States
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