What is the responsibility of a storyteller when recounting trauma, injustice, or loss? This panel brings together three authors who explore the fragile line between memory and reality, and how personal and collective histories shape our understanding of the world.
| Where: | The Commons Room 105 (Seats 217, Wheelchair accessible)  |
| When: | Sun, Mar 15, 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Koffler/Commons (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Fiction / Literature |
| Moderator: | Jessica Braithwaite |
| Sponsors: | Session made possible courtesy of Tucson Lifestyle, Visit Tucson, Jane Q. Peterson |
Brandon Hobson is the author of "The Devil is a Southpaw," a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and a longlister for the PEN Faulkner Award. An earlier novel, "Where the Dead Sit Talking," was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Reading the West Award....
T Kira Māhealani Madden is a diasporic Kanaka 'Ōiwi, Native Hawaiian, writer and author of the acclaimed memoir "Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls," which was named a New York Times Editors' Choice, as well as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and the Lambda Literary Award....
Thrity Umrigar is the bestselling author of nine novels, including "Honor," which was a Reese's Book Club pick, as well as four picture books and a memoir. A former journalist, she has contributed to The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and The Cleveland Plain Dealer....
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