Drue Heinz Literature Prize Winner Reading! Patricia Grace King, "Those Who Vanish" (w/ Sherrie Flick)

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RSVP to attend in-store Register for Livestream White Whale is honored to host this year's Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner, Patricia Grace King, for the Pittsburgh launch of her collection, Those Who Vanish! Deftly intertwining elements of the interpersonal with larger societal and political narratives, Those Who Vanish is an astonishing, unrelenting debut. Traveling all the way from northern England, King will be joined by local Pittsburgh icon and dear friend of White Whale, Sherrie Flick. "The stories in Patricia Grace King’s ravishing Those Who Vanish chronicle the consequences of inhabiting spaces both physical and psychic where one doesn’t naturally belong. In stories ranging from conflict-ravaged Guatemala to the American Midwest and beyond, King’s unrelenting exploration of our need to survive while retaining our humanity propels these narratives into surprising and heart-breaking terrain. As one character poignantly asks of another, ‘The real question is, do you want to be

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