M. Evelina Galang presents When the Hibiscus Falls, ft. Denne Michele Norris

Name: M. Evelina Galang presents When the Hibiscus Falls, ft. Denne Michele Norris
Start: 2023-06-17T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-06-17T19:00:00-04:00
Location: P&T Knitwear

: June 17, 7 pm.

: Free

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P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome M. Evelina Galang to celebrate her newest book, When the Hibiscus Falls (Coffee House Press), with a reading, discussion, audience Q&A and book signing. In this highly anticipated collection of “rare and fierce beauty examining generational and contemporary diasporic life” (Marie Myung-Ok Lee, author of The Evening Hero and a founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop), seventeen stories traverse borderlines, mythic and real, in the lives of Filipino and Filipino American women and their ancestors.

M. will be joined in conversation by Denne Michele Norris, editor-in-chief of Electric Literature. After the talk, M. will sign copies of her book.

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Moving from small Philippine villages of the past to the hurricane-beaten coast of near-future Florida, When the Hibiscus Falls examines the triumphs and sorrows that connect generations of women. Daughters, sisters, mothers, aunties, cousins, and lolas commune with their ancestors and their descendants, mourning what is lost when an older generation dies, celebrating what is gained when we safeguard their legacy for those who come after us. Featuring figures familiar from M. Evelina Galang’s other acclaimed and richly imagined novels and stories, When the Hibiscus Falls dwells within the complexity of family, community, and Filipino American identity. Each story is an offering, a bloom that unfurls its petals and holds space in the sun.

This is a free in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating
We encourage all attendees to wear masks.
The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books signed at P&T Knitwear events must be purchased from P&T Knitwear. If you would like a signed copy and cannot attend the event, we’re happy to take your pre-order. We ship most places!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

M. Evelina Galang is the author of a previous story collection, Her Wild American Self (1996), two novels, One Tribe (2006) and Angel De La Luna and the Fifth Glorious Mystery (2013), and the nonfiction book Lola’s House: Filipino Women Living with War (2017). She edited the anthology Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images (2003). Galang directed the Creative Writing Program at the University of Miami from 2009-2019 and served as VONA Board President from 2018-2023. She lives in Miami.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR

Denne Michele Norris is the editor-in-chief of Electric Literature, winner of the 2022 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. She is the first Black, openly trans woman to helm a major literary publication. A 2021 Out100 Honoree, her writing has been supported by MacDowell, Tin House, and the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction, and appears in McSweeney’s, American Short Fiction, and ZORA. She is co-host of the critically-acclaimed podcast Food 4 Thot, and her debut novel, When The Harvest Comes, is forthcoming from Random House.