Nina’s small-engine plane crashes into a lake in the Wyoming mountains, and when she comes to, her pilot boyfriend is nowhere to be found. Lost and freezing, it’s up to her to survive in the wilderness. Then she stumbles upon Sunrise, a strangely well-maintained Old West town, seemingly abandoned. In Tea Obreht´s Sunrise: A Novel, some secrets are like gunpowder: quiet until there’s a spark. In Son of Nobody: A Novel, Life of Pi author Yann Martel presents the Psoad, an Ancient Greek epic in free verse that follows Psoas of Midea, a goatherd’s son who leaves his wife and family to fight at Troy. Nearly 30 centuries later, a Canadian academic becomes the ancient text’s sole translator and discovers a personal message to his daughter hidden within – a universal song of love, ambition, and grief. Moderated by Clay Smith, literary director at the San Antonio Book Festival.

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