San Mateo County Libraries is excited to welcome Bay Area author Vanessa Hua to San Carlos Library on Sunday, September 13, at 1:00 PM to discuss her new novel, Coyoteland.
Our conversation with Vanessa Hua will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. The first 25 audience members will receive a free giveaway copy of Coyoteland.
About Coyoteland
Urgent, riveting and deeply heartfelt, full of sharp wit and keen empathy, Coyoteland is at once a delicious suburban drama and an unflinching exploration of our current moment.
When Jin Chang moves with his wife and daughters to El Nido, a privileged community in the hills east of Berkeley, he hopes it will finally be the end of his bad luck and years of scraping by. What his family doesn’t know is that he’s bending the rules for one final scheme: to make it big in real estate. As his daughter Jane struggles to navigate cliques, she befriends another teen named Tasha in the wake of a coyote attack. Together, they plot to expose El Nido's hypocrisies amongst an escalating fire season, a roaming coyote creating chaos and a series of scandals.
About Vanessa Hua
Vanessa Hua is the author of the national bestsellers A River of Stars and Forbidden City, as well as the story collection Deceit and Other Possibilities, a New York Times Editors’ Pick. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, a California Arts Council Fellowship, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, as well as honors from the de Groot Foundation, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Asian American Journalists Association, among others. Previously, she was an award-winning columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program, Sewanee Writers Conference, and elsewhere. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family. Her novel, Coyoteland came out this summer, and her book of narrative nonfiction, Uprooted, is forthcoming. Learn more at www.vanessahua.com, opens a new window
Praise for Coyoteland
"Swift, surprising, and wholly captivating, Coyoteland asks vital questions about race, class, and what it takes to truly belong. In training a discerning eye on one small, close-knit community, Vanessa Hua opens up an entire world. A tour de force from one of my all-time favorite writers, working at the very peak of her talents." —Kirstin Chen, Counterfeit
"With a storyteller’s keen eye and deep empathy, Vanessa Hua turns fire season, real estate gambits, and a prowling coyote into an unforgettable reckoning with power, belonging, and the uneasy compromises behind every claim to home." —Jean Kwok, The Leftover Woman
"Coyoteland pulses with the urgency of this moment yet guides with an ageless understanding of the human heart. With characters so tenderly drawn they’ll feel like family and struggles so credible you’ll mistake them for your own, this is one you’ll want to devour but which deserves to be savored. Propulsive, engrossing, and wise, it is a perfect homage to the pandemic era." —Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, On the Rooftop
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