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When Memory Becomes History: Mourning and Remembrance in Writing

  • L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, Riverview Room 400 Eau Claire Street Eau Claire, WI, 54701 United States (map)

Nghi Vo

If you weren’t able to join us for Vo’s live event or are interested in watching it again, click below to watch the recording.


We all have power when it comes to the stories we choose to tell, and should be aware of how the ones we tell will continue to echo. There’s this place where memory crosses over into history, but getting there takes time, effort and structure. Vo will discuss how her fourth Singing Hills Novella, Mammoths at the Gates, makes the historical personal, and the personal historical, and why it’s always worth thinking about what stories we want to tell going forward.

Please note: the author requires that masks be worn during the book signing portion of her event. The festival will have disposable masks on hand for attendees to use.

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NGHI VO is the author of the novels Siren Queen and The Chosen and The Beautiful as well as the acclaimed novellas Mammoth at the Gate and The Empress of Salt and Fortune, which was a finalist for the Locus and Ignyte Award and winner of both the Crawford Award and the Hugo Award. Born in Illinois, she now lives on the shores of Lake Michigan.

Learn more about Nghi Vo at nghivo.com.


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