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SUMMARY:“You Were Watching From the Sand” with Juliana Lamy
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Writer-in-Residence Juliana Lam
 y about her debut book\, "You Were Watching from the Sand\," a stylisticall
 y and conceptually daring collection that winds from fantastical horror to 
 mischievous domestic realism and always keeps in its sharp\, compassionate 
 view the material\, spiritual\, and emotional lives of Haitian people.\\n\\
 nPlayful\, kinetic\, and devastating in turn\, "You Were Watching from the 
 Sand" is a collection in which Haitian men\, women\, and children who find 
 their lives cleaved by the interminably strange bite back at the bizarre wi
 th their own oddities. In “belly\,” a young woman abandoned by her only
  living relative makes a person from the mud beside her backyard creek. In 
 “We Feel it in Punta Cana\,” a domestic child servant in the Dominican 
 Republic tours through his own lush imagination to make his material condit
 ions more bearable. In “The Oldest Sensation is Anger\,” a teenager inv
 ites a same-aged family friend into her apartment and uncovers a spate of d
 isturbing secrets about her. Written in a mixture of high lyricism\, absurd
 ist comedy\, and Haitian cultural witticisms\, this is a collection whose d
 ynamism matches that of its characters at every beat and turn.\\n\\nBook si
 gning to follow.\\n\\nJuliana Lamy is a Haitian fiction writer from South F
 lorida. She received her Bachelor’s degree in History & Literature from H
 arvard University. While there\, she was also the recipient of the universi
 ty’s Le Baron Russell Brigg’s Prize for Undergraduate Fiction\, as well
  as the Gordon Parks Essay Prize for Nonfiction. She is the author of You W
 ere Watching from the Sand (Red Hen Press\, 2023)\, winner of Red Hen Press
 's 2021 Ann Petry Award for Fiction\, winner of the 2024 CLMP Firecracker A
 ward for Fiction\, and longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shield's Prize as well
  as the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Fiction. In 2023\, she received 
 her MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
LOCATION:415 Spruce Ave\, Ketchum\, ID\, 83340\, United States
URL:https://visitsunvalley.com/events/you-were-watching-from-the-sand-with-
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