Alternative Histories

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Litquake, San Francisco's Literary Festival

Litquake's 2021 Festival runs from 10/7-10/23. Full schedule at litquake.org!

The American Bookbinders Museum

Sponsored by Yerba Buena Community Benefit DistrictCo-presented by American Bookbinders Museum, The National Book Critics Circle, and Balay KreativeJoin author Ricco Villanueva Siasoco in a conversation with three debut novelists about the process of building alternative histories of the American West, from the Gold Rush through World War I. Patty Enrado’s A Village in the Fields highlights a compelling but buried piece of American history: the Filipino-American contribution to the farm labor movement; Rishi Reddi’s epic Passage West, Los Angeles Times’ Best California Book of 2020, explores a Punjabi sharecropper family in California during World War I, as they work and live alongside their Mexican in-laws and Japanese neighbors; while Tom Lin’s debut novel The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, transforms the genre of the Western in a story of revenge for forced labor in the American railroad’s expansion. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation (pre-registration required)This program is indoors. Mask and proof of vaccination are required at the door. Please read the requirements at litquake.org/covid. Browse Litquake&#x27;s bookstore here -- <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/litquake" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://bookshop.org/shop/litquake</a>

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