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Nina Schuyler in Conversation with Karen Joy Fowler

Author of Open the Floodgates

Nina Schuyler, author of Open the Floodgates, will be in conversation with the New York Times bestselling author, Karen Joy Fowler.

Don't miss this opportunity to hear Nina Schuyler in conversation with the New York Times bestselling author, Karen Joy Fowler, as they discuss this timely themed new release.

We are in the midst of a profound legal shift: from New Zealand to India to Ecuador, real-world laws have granted personhood to rivers. In Open the Floodgates, the River is granted personhood and has the right—and urgent need—to argue in court for its existence. With a mix of magic and pathos, Open the Floodgates imagines this new reality with a new configuration of the human and other-than-human relationship.

Copies of both author's books will be available for purchase and signing. Light refreshments will be provided. Please register in advance.

About Nina Schuyler

Nina Schuyler’s short story collection, In This Ravishing World, won the PEN Oakland Josephine Literary Award, the W.S. Porter Prize, the Prism Prize for Climate Literature, and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. She teaches creative writing at Stanford Continuing Studies.

About Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler is an author of science fiction, historical fiction, and literary fiction. She has published seven novels and has seven grandchildren. Her novels include Sarah Canary, Sister Noon, and a NY Times bestseller, The Jane Austen Book Club.  She has three story collections including What I Didn’t See.  

We are all completely beside ourselves won the 2013 PEN/FAULKNER, the California Commonwealth Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man/Booker.  Her most recent novel, Booth, a historical account of the family of the famous assassin, was on the Booker longlist.  A new novel, Otter Music, about climate change and the Monterey Bay, will be published by Putnam in February 2027.  She lives on the north end of that bay in Santa Cruz, California with a husband, a dog, and a cat, acquired in that order.

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