Friday, September 23 / 4pm
LAUREL HALL Room 101
MATTHEW SALESSES, Author Reading and Q&A
Co-sponsored by Asian/Asian American Studies Institute and the Creative Writing Program at the University of Connecticut
Open to the Public
MATTHEW SALESSES is the author of the novel The Hundred-Year Flood (Little A/Amazon Publishing), an Amazon Bestseller, Best Book of September, and Kindle First pick; an Adoptive Families Best Book of 2015; a Millions Most Anticipated of 2015; a Thought Catalog Essential Contemporary Book by an Asian American Writer; and a Best Book of the season at Buzzfeed, Refinery29, and Gawker, among others.
Salesses’s novel takes place in the shadow of a looming flood that comes every one hundred years, and follows Tee as he tries to convince himself that living in a new place will mean a new identity and a chance to shed the parallels between him and his adopted father. Tee is a twenty-two-year-old Korean-American, who escapes to Prague in the wake of his uncle’s suicide and the aftermath of 9/11.
Forthcoming are a new novel, The Murder of the Doppelgänger (Little A, 2018), and a collection of essays, Own Story (Little A, 2019). His previous books include I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying (Civil Coping Mechanisms), Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity (Thought Catalog Books), and The Last Repatriate (Nouvella).
Matthew was adopted from Korea and has written about adoption, race, and parenting for NPR Code Switch, The New York Times Motherlode, Salon, The Toast, The Millions, The Rumpus, the Center for Asian American Media, and The Good Men Project, among others. His fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, Witness, West Branch, PEN/Guernica, and many others.
For more information, contact: Ms Fe Delos-Santos at fe.delos-santos@uconn.edu