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SUMMARY:Pop-up: Tom Lin
DESCRIPTION:Tom Lin reads from his new novel Babylon\, South Dakota at Portland Art Museum in the Northwest Art gallery (Level 4\, Room 402)\, paired with Manuel Izquierdo\, Red Flower. \nAbout Babylon\, South Dakota:\n\n\nTIME Magazine’s Most Anticipated Books of the Year\nTown & Country’s Best Books of Spring 2026\nNew York Times Book Review’s 32 Novels We’re Excited About This Spring\nThe Spokesman Review’s 12 upcoming books we’re excited to read \nFrom the author of the Carnegie Medal in Fiction winner The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu comes a tantalizing\, American West saga about a Chinese American family trying to survive on their Dakota farm as a powerful\, mysterious\, and morally dubious military secret shapes their lives. \nWhen Saul Keng Hsiu and his wife\, Mei Lee\, move from China to the United States to take possession of a 160-acre homestead bequeathed to them by a distant relative\, all they have are the possessions on their back\, some hidden gold\, and a pocketful of chrysanthemum seeds. After a rocky start and a long\, harsh winter\, the couple find themselves successfully raising chrysanthemums and livestock\, and soon after\, a daughter\, Mara. \nBut when representatives from the US Army Corps of Engineers buy an acre of the Hsiu’s farmland and begin building a missile silo\, the inexplicable starts to occur: Mara can commune with the animals on the farm\, Mei develops a hidden talent for augury\, and the chrysanthemums become impervious to everything. When the Hsius learn that the project on their farm is an effort to make America’s nuclear deterrent invulnerable\, they see firsthand the long arm of power and empire. \nIn the years and generations that follow\, increasingly impacted by the silo and its residue\, the Hsius experience strange\, wondrous\, and tragic events on their farm. An ambitious epic and an ode to the beauty and glory of our connection to the natural world\, Babylon\, South Dakota upends the idea of “strangers in a strange land” to become a classic American story. It is a daring novel about how choices reverberate across generations and asks us what we owe to one another. \n\n  \n“Lin’s gossamer prose is patient and full of wonders.”—Ed Park\, author of Same Bed Different Dreams and An Oral History of Atlantis
URL:https://pdxbookfest.org/event/pop-up-tom-lin/
LOCATION:Portland Art Museum: Main Building\, 1219 SW Park Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97205
CATEGORIES:Fiction Events,Pop-up Events
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