Breakfast with a Bestseller: Evelyn in Transit with author David Guterson

Join bestselling author David Guterson for coffee, pastries, and conversation on his latest novel, Evelyn in Transit.

In 1994, David Guterson's debut novel, Snow Falling on Cedars, became an international bestseller and went on to be adapted into an Academy Award nominated film and theater production. Now, Guterson's seventh novel, Evelyn in Transit, has been described as "an inspired portrait that is both cosmic and sacred" by Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Harding, and "as entertaining as it is meaningful" by NPR's Here and Now.

Join David for a morning of coffee, pastries, and an intimate discussion on David's breadth of work. Attendees will have the opportunity to pose questions to David, followed by a book signing (Evelyn in Transit will be for sale onsite.)

David will be joined by award-winning author and Tibet scholar Canyon Sam (Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History), whose groundbreaking work on Tibetan history and Buddhism brings rare depth to the conversation. Together, they explore spiritual longing, cultural collision, and what it means to live rightly in an uncertain world.

Complimentary pastries, coffee and tea will be provided.

Want an opportunity to meet with David and other authors for an open dialogue on writing and honing your craft? Apply for What's on Your Mind? An Intimate Writing Forum with David Guterson, hosted after the talk at 1:00 pm!

What a beautiful, strange, soulful spell David Guterson casts in Evelyn in Transit. . . .the modest, intimate, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deadpan funny, always perfectly observed day-to-day details build up and resolve into an inspired portrait that is both cosmic and sacred.Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers and This Other Eden

About the Speaker

David Guterson is the author of 13 books, including the novel Snow Falling on Cedars, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and of the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award. His writing has been celebrated for its atmospheric intensity, narrative drive, and probing exploration of fundamental human themes--love, death, meaning, and morality among them. Guterson's body of work includes 6 novels, 2 story collections, 2 works of non-fiction, and 2 books of poetry. He was born in Washington State and still lives there.

About the Moderator

Canyon Sam is the author of Sky Train: Tibetan Women On the Edge of History (University of Washington Press, October 2009), winner of the 2010 PEN American Center’s Open Book Award. Her memoirs, plays, and articles have appeared in over two dozen publications including Homelands: Women’s Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time (2007, Seal Press/Avalon), Shambhala Sun, The Seattle Review, and the San Jose Mercury News. She wrote for Agence France Presse. Ms. Sam is the recipient of numerous artists’ residencies and awards including a Screenwriting Fellowship from the Center for Asian American Media, a National Endowment for the Arts scholarship, and a San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist’s grant in literature.