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Reverse-Gentrification of the Literary World

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Events » United States » Florida » Miami » Nina Revoyr — Miami Book Fair, Miami, FL

Events » November 2019 » Nina Revoyr — Miami Book Fair, Miami, FL

Nina Revoyr — Miami Book Fair, Miami, FL

With:

Susan Choi on Trust Exercise: A Novel, Nina Revoyr on A Student of History, and Janet Fitch on Chimes of a Lost Cathedral: A young Russian woman comes into her own in the midst of revolution and civil war in Janet Fitch’s Chimes of a Lost Cathedral. In her novel A Student of History, Nina Revoyr explores both, the beginnings of Los Angeles and the present-day dynamics of race and class. In Susan Choi’s novel, Trust Exercise, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble in the 1980s.