BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211111T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211111T180000 DTSTAMP:20240328T062353 CREATED:20211008T122700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211008T122700Z UID:250181-1636653600-1636653600@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Novel Nights: Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown DESCRIPTION:Join us for Novel Nights! At this event\, award-winning author Daniel James Brown will speak about his latest book\, Facing the Mountain\, with book critic Mary Ann Gwinn. This event will be held virtually. \nTickets: \n\n$25 general admission\n$100 series pass\n\nThis event takes place in Pacific Time. Tickets can be purchased at the bottom of the page. \nThis event is sponsored by Dick and Mary Beth Gemperle\, and DeNoma Literary Services. \n\nAbout Facing the Mountain\n\nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat\, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and resistance\, focusing on four Japanese American men and their families\, and the contributions and sacrifices that they made for the sake of the nation. \nIn the days and months after Pearl Harbor\, the lives of Japanese Americans across the continent and Hawaii were changed forever. In this unforgettable chronicle of war-time America and the battlefields of Europe\, Daniel James Brown portrays the journey of Rudy Tokiwa\, Fred Shiosaki\, and Kats Miho\, who volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and were deployed to France\, Germany\, and Italy\, where they were asked to do the near impossible. Brown also tells the story of these soldiers’ parents\, immigrants who were forced to submit to life in concentration camps on U.S. soil. Woven throughout is the chronicle of Gordon Hirabayashi\, one of a cadre of patriotic resisters who stood up against their government in defense of their own rights. Whether fighting on battlefields or in courtrooms\, these were Americans under unprecedented strain\, doing what Americans do best—striving\, resisting\, pushing back\, rising up\, standing on principle\, laying down their lives\, and enduring. \n\nAbout the author\n\nDaniel James Brown grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Diablo Valley College\, the University of California at Berkeley\, and UCLA. He taught writing at San Jose State University and Stanford before becoming a technical writer and editor. He now writes narrative nonfiction books full time\, and he is the author of four books: Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (2006)\, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (2009)\, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics (2013)\, and Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II (2021). \n\nAbout the moderator\n\nMary Ann Gwinn spent 34 years at The Seattle Times. Along the way she won a Pulitzer Prize (along with others) for her cover of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. For the last 18 years of her career\, she was the Books Editor and her Lit Life column was a beloved institution for folks who liked to have their nose in a book. Mary Ann was one of three jurors for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. She is a vice president of the board of the National Book Critics Circle\, and the 2018 chair for the NBCC prize in general nonfiction. Whether her subject is a local or national author\, Gwinn uses her linguistic gifts to shine a spotlight on those doing the good word work. \n\nAbout Novel Nights\nPart book club\, part celebration: a novel approach to the literary salon. \n\nWe write because we were readers first—and our love of reading great literature is what sustains us through long\, lonely hours at the writing desk. \nBut books don’t exist only in the solitude of our minds; they come alive in the conversations we have about them. \nAt Novel Nights\, you’ll delve into the depths of books in the company of fellow book-lovers and friends—all while supporting Hugo House. To see a full list of all the Novel Nights events or buy a series pass\, click here. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/novel-nights-facing-the-mountain-by-daniel-james-brown/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR