Brenda Iijima, author of SHELTER IS NECESSARY FOR EXISTENCE

Schedule

Wed Dec 09 2026 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-06:00
Location

Boswell Book Company | Milwaukee, WI

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A Boswell event, featuring Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece as the conversation partner
About this Event

Come visit Boswell Book Company for our event featuring author Brenda Ijima as she discussed her latest novel Shelter is Necessary for Existence. It's a haunted novel that's equal parts psychological thriller and social satire and explores the disquieting qualities of a privileged family’s mundane cultural assumptions. She'll be in conversation with fellow author an UWM professor, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece.

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Brenda Iijima is the author of Presence published by Georgia Review Books in 2024. She is also the author of numerous volumes of poetry. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and runs a small poetry press.

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Boswell Book Company, 2559 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, United States

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