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Story Happy Hour reads “Selkie Stories Are For Losers” from TENDER by Sofia Samatar
| Location | East City Bookshop, 645 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, Washington, DC |
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| Date | Monday, April 9, 2018 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm |
| Duration | 1 hours |
| Link | http://www.eastcitybookshop.com/event/short-story-happy-hour-reads-selkie-stories-are-losers-tender-sofia-samatar |
| RSVP on Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/events/391492821314001/ |
| Repeats? | No |
| Details | Short Story Happy Hour will read and discuss Sofia Samatar's story "Selkie Stories Are For Losers" from Tender. Come and join the discussion! -- “Most of the 20 sumptuous tales in Sofia Samatar’s collection Tender take place on Earth – although not always the Earth we might recognize. Sprawling in subject from the supernatural power of names to the loneliness of a half-robot woman, Tender redefines the emotional power and literary heft that speculative fiction can convey. Where Samatar’s acclaimed fantasy novels exist in a strange, dreamlike world, her short stories daringly explore the overlap of familiarity and otherness.” Divided into “Tender Bodies” and “Tender Landscapes,” these twenty stories travel from the commonplace to the edges of reality. The first collection of short fiction from a rising star whose stories have been anthologized many times including in the first two volumes of the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series and nominated for many awards. Some of Samatar’s weird and compassionate fabulations spring from her life and literary studies; some spring from the world, some from the void. Tender explores the fragility of bodies, emotions, and landscapes, in settings that range from medieval Egypt to colonial Kenya to the stars, and the voices of those who question: children, students, servants, researchers, writers. |
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