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"An intricate exploration of family and home, of mother and child, of friends, of women and written with both precision and style."Weike Wang, author of "Chemistry".
Time: 12:00 pm
Date: Wednesday, March 11
Place: High Cotton, 199 East Bay
Lunch: Three delicious courses by
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$32 per person.
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Cover Art by Grace Helmer, UK
From a talented, powerful new voice in fiction comes a stunning novel about the intersection of three lives coming to grips with identity, family legacy, and what it means to make a house a true home.
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"Before, before—a young woman, in a modest but pristine apartment in Tokyo, paints a castle on paper, unlike any castle in Japan. Where is this castle? her mother, who secretly writes poetry on gum wrappers, whose ancestors created beauty with katana rather than pen, asks her daughter. She starts to answer, but her mother grabs the paper and flips it over. Your mind is a ship, she says. It will take you away from me and leave me here alone. Your hair is dirty. Why don’t you do something about that? So this young woman, her name lost to the wrinkles of history, washes her hair, and it is clean and black and straight and falls at the arch of her bony shoulders. She is all bones, lanky and bendy like a strip of Wrigley’s. We need . . . her mother says, and she probably said more tea or meriken-ko or toothpaste, and sent her daughter out into the noontime street, into the crowded Tokyo Saturday, where families are sitting in parks or visiting grave sites of their mothers and fathers and grandmothers, who were unlucky enough to live in Hiroshima or Nagasaki." Read More.
Lee Matalone's writing has been featured in The Offing, Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Denver Quarterly, and Hobart, among other places. Home Making is her first novel. She lives in South Carolina and teaches at Clemson University.
Fiction by Lee Matalone
The Offing, Sundog Lit, Denver Quarterly, Hobart, Bat City Review, 5X5, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Jellyfish Review, crag, Joyland, Nat.Brut, The Austin Review, Vol.1 Brooklyn, Cosmonauts Avenue, Bridge Eight
Non Fiction by Lee Matalone
Lit Hub, Electric Literature, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, The National, Heavy Feather Review, Inside Higher Ed, Vice Munchies, Bookslut, Curbed, Fiction Advocate, Perversion Magazine, Flavorwire