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DESCRIPTION:Join the End of the End of the World Word Cabaret & The Green Arcade in a 
 reading from three Bay Area authors reading from their books (two of them 
 first novels).\n\nAnanda Esteva's novel The Wanderings of Chela Coatlicue 
 is the first installment of a trilogy of coming-of-age adventures that 
 follows a young brazen musical prodigy in search of a sacred bass once 
 owned by legendary blues musician Sugar Rivera. Filled with breathtaking 
 action, border perils, magic and passion, this fantasy novel takes readers 
 through numerous plot developments and twists that lead them to a variety 
 of choices and outcomes, as Chela travels from the punk rock slums of 
 Mexico City to the suburbs of Los Angeles. Unfolding in the present tense 
 from the second-person point of view, events, actions and consequences hit 
 the reader with immediacy, making this novel the ultimate exploration of 
 border politics, indie music culture, and one young woman’s 
 self-discovery in the mystery surrounding Rivera.\n\nAdam Smyer's debut 
 novel Knucklehead introduces the reader to Marcus Hayes, a black lawyer who 
 regulates everyday bad behavior with short, sharp bursts of retribution, 
 and “struggles to keep his cool in the personally and politically 
 turbulent ’90s.” Like Smyer, the book has a wicked sense of humor, even 
 as it gives the reader a tour of the dystopian Clinton years. Comparisons 
 to James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Zora Neale Hurston are well 
 earned.\n\nAsked why he chose to set his book in the 1990's, Smyer says, "I 
 think that the ’90s have been overlooked in a way. I think that on some 
 level the prevailing narrative has become that everything was fine before 
 9/11. But everything was definitely not fine. We had militias and the 
 Unabomber and Tim McVeigh and Columbine. The amount of hate and hysteria 
 that we normalized back then laid the groundwork for what is happening 
 today. It was fertile ground for storytelling."\n\nKate Jessica Raphael is 
 the author of Murder Under the Bridge and Murder Under the Fig Tree (She 
 Write Press). In the latter book, Hamas has taken power in Palestine, and 
 the Israeli government is rounding up people considered threats. 
 Palestinian policewoman Rania Bakara finds herself thrown in prison, though 
 she has never been part of Hamas. Chloe flies in from San Francisco to free 
 her friend – and rekindle her romance with Tina, a beautiful Palestinian 
 Australian. The only way Rania can get out of jail is by agreeing to 
 investigate the death of a young gay Palestinian in a village near her 
 home.\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/18/18807491.php
SUMMARY:The End of the End of the World Word Cabaret - Three Local Authors Reading From New Books
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\nSan Francisco, CA  94102
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/18/18807491.php
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