Buxton Books presents a virtual author talk with Natashia Deón for her new novel, The Perishing. She will be in conversation with Chiwan Choi.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
“Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no memory of how she got there or where she’s from. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. When she befriends a firefighter at a downtown boxing gym, Lou is shocked to realize that though she has no memory of meeting him, she’s been drawing his face for years. Increasingly certain that their paths previously crossed—and beset by unexplainable flashes from different times that have been haunting her dreams—Lou begins to believe she may be an immortal sent for a very important reason, one that only others like her will be able to explain.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Natashia Deón is an NAACP Image Award Nominee, practicing criminal attorney, and college professor at UCLA and Antioch University. Deón was a 2017 U.S. Delegate to Armenia as part of the U.S. Embassy’s reconciliation project between Turkey and Armenia in partnership with the University of Iowa and is a Pamela Krasney Moral Courage Fellow. In that role, she founded REDEEMED, a criminal record clearing and clemency project that pairs writers with those who have been convicted of crimes.
ABOUT CHIWAN CHOI:
Chiwan Choi s the author of four books, The Flood, Abductions, The Yellow House, and my name is wolf. He wrote, presented, and destroyed the novel Ghostmaker throughout the course of 2015. He is also the host of the podcast Are You There, Ghost? It’s Me, Chiwan.