New Fiction: A Reading: Justin Torres on We the Animals, Nina Revoyr on Wingshooters, Adam Johnson on The Orphan Master’s Son and Scott Hutchins on A Working Theory of Love
Sunday, Nov. 18, 3:30 p.m., Room 8301 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Justin Torres
In Justin Torres’s debut novel, We the Animals: A Novel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $21.00), narrated by the youngest son of a Puerto Rican father and white mother, life is fierce, chaotic, and euphoric. “A novel so honest, poetic, and tough that it makes you reexamine what it means to love and to hurt . . .”—O, the Oprah Magazine. Torres is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University.
Nina Revoyr
In Nina Revoyr’s latest novel, Wingshooters (Akashic, $23.95), the child of a white American father and a Japanese mother, lives with her grandparents in Deerhorn, Wisconsin--a small town that had been entirely white before her arrival. Rejected and bullied, Michelle spends her time reading, avoiding fights, and roaming the countryside with her dog Brett. This fragile peace is threatened when the expansion of the local clinic leads to the arrival of a young black couple from Chicago. Revoyr is the author of three other novels: The Age of Dreaming, Southland, and The Necessary Hunger.
Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son: A Novel (Random House, $15.00) is a view behind the papier-mâché façade of North Korea that combines suspense, romance, and adventure. The story of a young man named Jun Do—who goes from his orphanage work camp to a job as kidnapper of unsuspecting Japanese, to monitoring radio waves on a fishing boat, to a dangerous impersonation of a government minister—exposes the weird and wild textures of a corrupt country where the slightest mistake is punishable by death. “. . . a macabrely realistic, politically savvy, satirically spot-on saga.—Elle. Johnson, who teaches creative writing at Stanford, is also the author of the short story collection Emporium and the novel Parasites Like Us.
Scott Hutchins
In his debut novel, A Working Theory of Love (Penguin, $25.95), Scott Hutchins takes readers on an odyssey of love, grief, and reconciliation. Set in San Francisco following the implosion of his marriage, a young man works on creating the first sentient computer by feeding it his father’s diary entries. When he discovers a missing year in the diaries—a year that must hold some secret to his parents’ marriage and perhaps even his father’s suicide—everything Neill thought he knew about his past comes into question. Hutchins is a former Truman Capote fellow in the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 8301 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
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