Author Event: Kim Fu, WA State Book Award Winner

Join us for an evening with Kim Fu, Washington State Book Award Winner and author of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21^st Century (in process DBC19317). Fu will be in conversation with Danya Kukafka, author of the bestselling novels Notes on an Execution (DB109322) and Girl in Snow (DB089792). Her books have been reviewed favorably in outlets like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, and have been translated into over a dozen languages worldwide.

You can join us in-person at WTBBL, 2021 9th Ave, Seattle WA 98121 or online via Zoom.  Registration is required to receive the event link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mlbkiAl6TEOlMY_wsoyymg

Winner of the 2023 Washington State Book Award for Fiction, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21^st Century is mesmerizing, electric, and wholly original, blurring the boundaries of the real and fantastic, offering intricate and surprising insights into human nature.

Kim Fu is the author of For Today I Am a Boy (DB078127, BR020439) which won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, as well as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Her second novel, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore (in process DBC15768), was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the OLA Evergreen Award. Fu’s writing has appeared in Granta, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Hazlitt, and the TLS. She lives in Seattle.

The Washington State Book Awards are a project of the the Washington Center for the Book (an affiliate of The Library of Congress Center for the Book administered by Washington State Library).

This event is presented in partnership with the Washington Center for the Book (administered by Washington State Library). The event is free and will be presented in-person at WTBBL and online via Zoom. The event will be recorded and accessible on Washington State Library’s YouTube channel.

MORE ABOUT THE BOOK:

“The strange and wonderful define Kim Fu’s story collection, where the line between fantasy and reality fades in and out, elusive and beckoning.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Bold. . . . profound. . . . surreal and clever. Fu brings magical realism to exciting heights.”
—TIME

“A lovely, new collection of eclectic tales.”
—The Washington Post