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Shze-Hui Tjoa joins us in Remington to read from and discuss her new memoir, The Story Game, in conversation with Tin House editor Elizabeth DeMeo!
ABOUT THE STORY GAME
In the humid dark of a eucalyptus-scented room, a woman named Hui lies on a mattress telling stories about herself to her listener, a little girl. She talks about her identity as the child of an immigrant, her feelings about being in a mixed-race marriage, her opinions on mental health. But as her stories progress, it becomes clear a volatile secret lurks beneath their surface. There are events in Hui’s past that have great significance for the person she’s become, but that have gone missing from her memory. What is it, exactly, that is haunting Hui? Who is the little girl she talks to? And who is Hui herself?
As the conversation continues, what unfolds is a breathtaking, unexpected journey through layers of story toward truth and recovered identity; a memoir that reenacts, in tautly novelistic fashion, the process of healing that author Shze-Hui Tjoa moved through to recover memories lost to complex PTSD and, eventually, reconstruct her sense of self. Stunning in its originality and intimacy, The Story Game is a piercing tribute to selfhood and sisterhood, a genre-shattering testament to the power of imagination, and a one-of-a-kind work of art.
The Story Game releases on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, and is available for pre-order at greedyreads.com!
Shze-Hui Tjoa is a writer from Singapore who lives in the UK. She is a nonfiction editor at Sundog Lit, and previously served as fiction editor of Exposition Review. Her work has been published in journals including Colorado Review, Southeast Review, and So to Speak, and has been listed as notable in three successive issues of The Best American Essays series (2021-23). Her work has received support from the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Vermont Studio Center, the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, Disquiet International, and AWP’s Writer to Writer Mentorship Program.
Elizabeth DeMeo is an Editor at Tin House. Books she's edited have won the Pacific Northwest Book Award and CALIBA Golden Poppy Award; been short- or longlisted for the LA Times Book Prize, Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the New American Voices Award, among others; been chosen as a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick of the Month and Indie Next List selection; and named best of the year by the New Yorker and NPR. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Arkansas, and was the recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Malaysia. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Greedy Reads Remington, 320 West 29th Street, Baltimore, United States
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