Rachel Khong and Shruti Swamy in Conversation.
Celebrate Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month as the Berkeley Public Library hosts Rachel Khong in conversation with Shruti Swamy for a conversation at the North Branch. Books from both authors will be available for sale at the event from Eastwind Books, including the new paperback edition of Real Americans by Rachel Khong.
RACHEL KHONG is the author of Goodbye, Vitamin, winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction. In 2018, she founded The Ruby, a work and event space for writers and artists in San Francisco’s Mission District. Her newest novel, Real Americans, was a New York Times bestseller. She lives in Los Angeles.
Shruti Swamy is the author of the story collection A House Is a Body, and a novel, The Archer. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Elizabeth George Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Council, and Vassar College, and is a 2024 Rome Prize Fellow in Literature. Shruti’s work has appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeny's, AFAR Magazine, and the New York Times, and twice won the O. Henry. Her introduction to Ursula K Le Guin’s masterpiece Always Coming Home appears in the novel’s 2023 reissue. She lives in San Francisco.
This event was funded by The Pace Family Trust.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Cultural & Heritage | Authors, Books & Writing |
