Maia Lee-Chin & Eunice Hong || Debut Author (Double) Feature

Join us in celebrating incredible debut novels from authors Maia Lee-Chin & Eunice Hong for a Double Author Feaure @ Narrative!

Maia Lee-Chin is a Somerville local author! She's a lover of casual conversations with the ancient world and is convinced that all translations are autobiographical. She claims she was born to be a classicist, citing her Greek goddess namesake and her lineage, which includes some of the earliest African Americans to obtain college degrees. When not writing, Maia plays video games, cooks, cleans (begrudgingly), works in urban education, and tries not to use epic poetry as a road map for life. She has other work featured in Eidolon and Ancient Exchanges.

Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases - Latin may be a “dead” language, but it’s all around us—in science, philosophy, religion, and literature. From “carpe diem” to the more obscure “alea iacta est,” classicist Maia Lee-Chin explains the fascinating origins of many Latin phrases still in use—as well as those that have been lost to the ages.

Each entry includes a direct translation, attribution, origin, and a striking, full-page illustration by Italian artist Marta Bertello. A beautiful object as well as a useful reference book, Et Cetera brings ancient knowledge and culture to life for readers of the 21st Century.

Eunice Hong is the director of the Leadership Initiative and a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School. MEMENTO MORI is her first novel. She was previously a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and a law clerk to the Honorable Richard M. Berman in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Eunice received her J.D. from Columbia Law School after graduating from Phillips Academy Andover and Brown University. She resides in New York, New York. Her author website is www.eunicehong.com, and she can be found on Instagram (@eunicejhhong) and Twitter (@eunicehong).

Memento Mori- Did Eurydice want to return from the underworld? Did anybody ask? In this brilliant portrait of rage and resilience, a Korean woman tries to connect with her younger brother and grapple with family tragedy through bedtime stories that weave together Greek mythology, neuroscience, and tales from their grandmother’s slipping memory. Recasting the myths of Eurydice, Orpheus, Persephone, and Hades through the lens of a Korean American family, Eunice Hong’s debut novel offers a moving and darkly funny exploration of grief, love, and the inescapability of death.

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