Coming of Age in California: A reading and discussion with Dana Johnson and Paula Priamos July 20, 2012

Join Los Angeles based authors Dana Johnson and Paula Priamos for a reading and discussion of their debut works about Coming of Age in California, family ties, and the things that make and break us:

Elsewhere, California by Dana Johnson and The Shyster's Daughter by Paula Priamos.

"In her gripping, big-hearted, and sometimes harrowing memoir Priamos proves herself to be not only a keen observer of the ways we love and bear loss, but also a first-rate storyteller." --Will Allison, author of the New York Times Bestseller Long Drive Home and What You Have Left

"[Elsewhere, California] exhibits Johnson's fearlessness. She goes deeply into territory often simplified or sidestepped entirely--the limbo of elusive identity, not just questioning what "blackness" is but "whiteness"--and otherness--and all that lies beneath it." --Los Angeles Times

ABOUT THE AUTHORS...

Based in Los Angeles, Paula Priamos has written for The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Post. She teaches at California State University San Bernadino. For more info on Paula, visit: http://www.paulapriamos.com.

Born and raised in and around Los Angeles, California, Dana Johnson is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California where she teaches literature and creative writing. Her short story collection Break Any Woman Down won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in the literary journals Slake, Callaloo, and The Iowa Review, among others. To learn more about Dana, visit http://www.danajohnsonauthor.com

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