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Chang-rae Lee and Donna Seaman
An Evening with Novelist Chang-rae Lee
The Book Stall is delighted to host bestselling novelist Chang-rae Lee for his latest, My Year Abroad. Mr. Lee will be in conversation with author and reviewer Donna Seaman. This virtual program is free. Please register to reserve your spot.
About the Book: From the award-winning author of Native Speaker and On Such a Full Sea, an exuberant, provocative story about a young American life transformed by an unusual Asian adventure – and about the human capacities for pleasure, pain, and connection.
About the author: Chang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, as well as On Such a Full Sea, A Gesture Life, Aloft, and The Surrendered, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Stanford University.
Conversation Partner Donna Seaman is the Adult Books Editor for Booklist, a member of the American Writers Museum’s Content Leadership Team, and a recipient of the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award, the James Friend Memorial Award for Literary Criticism, and the Louis Shores Award for excellence in book reviewing. Her author interviews are collected in Writers on the Air: Conversations about Books, and she is the author of Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists.
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