Kim Fu w/ Lucy Tan, THE VALLEY OF THE VENGEFUL GHOSTS

Seattle author Kim Fu returns to the store to launch their novel, The Valley of the Vengeful Ghosts, an eerie, spellbinding novel of grief and guilt, with a razor-sharp eye for the absurdity and melancholy of the internet age. They’ll be in conversation with Lucy Tan, author of What We Were Promised.

From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century comes The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts

In the aftermath of her mother's death, Eleanor is unmoored. For years, her mother orchestrated every detail of her life—from meals, to laundry, to finances—so that Eleanor could focus on her career as a therapist. Left to navigate the world on her own, Eleanor clings to her mother’s final directive: use her inheritance to buy a house.

Desperate to obey her mother one last time, but finding few options she can afford, Eleanor impulsively buys a model home in a valley-turned-construction site, a picturesque development steeped in a shadowy history. It feels like a fresh start, until the rain comes—an endless, torrential downpour. As water seeps in through the house’s cracks, the line between what is real and what is not begins to blur. Haunted by the stories of her patients, a stream of workmen and bureaucrats she can’t trust, and visions of ghosts from her past and present, Eleanor’s reality unravels, and she is forced to reckon with the secrets she’s buried and the desperate choices she’s made.

Kim Fu is the author of two novels, a collection of poetry, and most recently, the story collection Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, winner of the Washington State Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Book Award, and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, as well as a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Ignyte Awards, and the Shirley Jackson Awards. Fu lives in Seattle, Washington.

Lucy Tan is author of the novel What We Were Promised, which was a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick, a Washington Post Best Book of 2018, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She is a recipient of fellowships from Kundiman and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her short fiction has appeared in journals such as American Short Fiction, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, and The Sun. Originally from New Jersey, Lucy lives and writes in Seattle, where she is a bookseller at Secret Garden Books. Her second novel is called Tiger's Mouth, and is forthcoming from Penguin Random House.

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