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SUMMARY:Thao Thai
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DESCRIPTION:WOSU's Christopher Purdy will be in conversation with Thao Tha
 i about her newest novel\, The Seekers of Deer Creek\, a literary explorat
 ion of family\, art and healing..\nhttps://columbus.libnet.info/event/1704
 5106
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<h2><strong>Authors at the Library </strong><
 /h2>\n<h2><strong>Christopher Purdy In Conversation with </strong><strong>
 THAO THAI</strong></h2>\n<h3><strong>Sunday\, November 15 | 2 p.m.</strong
 ><br /><strong>Auditorium | Main Library | 96 S. Grant Ave.</strong></h3>\
 n<p><strong>1:30 p.m. |</strong>&nbsp\;Seating opens\, Book sale by Gramer
 cy<br /><strong>2:00 p.m. | </strong>Christopher Purdy&nbsp\;in conversati
 on with Thao Thai&nbsp\;<br /><strong>2:45 p.m. |</strong> Audience Q&amp\
 ;A<br /><strong>3:00 p.m. |</strong> Book sale and signing</p>\n<p><img sr
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 ong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</strong></p>\n<p><span><strong>Thao Thai</strong>&nbs
 p\;is the author of&nbsp\;<em>Banyan Moon</em>\, the July 2023 Read with J
 enna title\, Barnes &amp\; Noble Discover Pick\, and Book of the Month sel
 ection.&nbsp\;<em>Banyan Moon</em>&nbsp\;was also selected by booksellers 
 as an IndieNext pick and longlisted for the Center for Fiction&rsquo\;s Fi
 rst Novel Prize. She was the recipient of the 2024 Ohio Arts Council&rsquo
 \;s Individual Excellence Award\, and her work has been published in the&n
 bsp\;<em>Los Angeles Review of Books\, WIRED\, Elle\, Lit Hub</em>\, and o
 ther publications. She lives in central Ohio with her husband and daughter
 . </span></p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE BOOK</strong></p>\n<p class="sqsrte-la
 rge preFade fadeIn"><em>An art mystery wrapped inside a family saga&hellip
 \;</em></p>\n<p class="preFade fadeIn"><span class="sqsrte-text-color--cus
 tom">Aside from the fact they are sisters\, Vivi and Calla Nguyá»…n ha
 ve little in common.</span></p>\n<p class="preFade fadeIn"><span class="sq
 srte-text-color--custom">Vivi\, the eldest\, lives an orderly and predicta
 ble life. She works as an art conservator at a museum in Chicago\, careful
 ly preserving pieces of the past\, all the while refusing to examine her o
 wn dark history.&nbsp\;</span></p>\n<p class="preFade fadeIn"><span class=
 "sqsrte-text-color--custom">Calla leads a much bolder\, if occasionally re
 ckless\, existence. She&rsquo\;s an accomplished artist with a flair for t
 he dramatic\, charming and intriguing everyone she meets. She&rsquo\;s als
 o a recovering addict\, constantly causing Vivi to worry.</span></p>\n<p c
 lass="preFade fadeIn"><span class="sqsrte-text-color--custom">Months after
  the two fall out in the wake of their father&rsquo\;s death\, Calla appea
 rs on the steps of the museum with a sketch and a letter she found in thei
 r father&rsquo\;s belongings. The sketch is an exact copy of&nbsp\;<em>Blu
 e Mirror</em>\, a striking painting by a Vietnamese painter named K.P. L&y
 acute\;. In the letter\, L&yacute\; writes about a mysterious lost work of
  art. Calla is convinced it is meant for their family\, and that it was th
 eir father&rsquo\;s deathbed wish for her and Vivi to find it together. In
 trigued yet reluctant to follow her capricious sister\, Vivi must decide w
 hether she&rsquo\;s willing to face or shut the door to the past.</span></
 p>\n<p class="preFade fadeIn"><span class="sqsrte-text-color--custom">From
  the ghostly Wisconsin woods to a glittering estate in the French countrys
 ide to a sprawling ancestral home teetering on the edge of a ravine in Vi
 ệt Nam\,&nbsp\;<em>The Seekers of Deer Creek&nbsp\;</em>is a story o
 f sisters\, art\, and the irresistible gravity of the past&mdash\;how it e
 ndures across time and generations\, always present even when buried.</spa
 n></p>\n<p><strong><img src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images/ev
 ents/columbus/Authors_at_the_Library/purdy.jpg" width="300" height="400" a
 lt="" /></strong></p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE MODERATOR</strong></p>\n<p>Chr
 istopher Purdy is the host of All Sides Weekends Books and&nbsp\;Classical
  101's early morning. He is host and producer of Front Row Center &ndash\;
  Classical 101&rsquo\;s weekly celebration of Opera and more &ndash\; as w
 ell as Music in Mid-Ohio\, Concerts at Ohio State\, and the Columbus Symph
 ony broadcast series. He is the regular pre-concert speaker for Columbus S
 ymphony performances in the Ohio Theater.</p>\n<p><strong>EVENT DETAILS</s
 trong></p>\n<p>The event is free to the public but due to limited seating 
 registration is requested.</p>\n<p>Thao's books will be sold on site by Gr
 amercy Books.</p>\n<p>Parking available in Main Library's attached garage\
 , while available.</p>\nhttps://columbus.libnet.info/event/17045106
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