# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Serena Chopra and Valerie Hsiung In Conversation
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 19 Aug, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Wed, 19 Aug, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Serena Chopra and Valerie Hsiung will speak about their new books, "A Catalog of Future Mercies" and "The Pedestrian," at Boulder Bookstore.About this EventSerena Chopra and Valerie Hsiung will speak about and sign their new books, A Catalog of Future Mercies and The Pedestrian, on Wednesday, August 19th at 6:30pm, at Boulder Bookstore.About A Catalog of Future Mercies:In this luminous memoir-in-poems, Serena Chopra explores the complexities of mercy in an immigrant family haunted by generational violence. Drawing connections between the brutalized prairie beneath suburban lawns and the brutalized body seeking reclamation through sensuality, Chopra examines what it means to be a survivor descended from both survivors and perpetrators. Through divinatory poetics and cross-temporal storytelling, she parallels national histories of violence with the paradox of caretaking for a parent who has been both victim and abuser. And, in the specters of generational violence, Chopra invokes an imperative to stay present with lineages of trauma rather than slip into personal and cultural amnesia. A lyric woven in four parts, A Catalog of Future Mercies reimagines mercy as radical embodied witnessing, a form of resilience that refuses the tyranny of forgetting.About The Pedestrian:Emerging from the dark ecology between lullaby and ghost story, The Pedestrian meanders down a labyrinth of divinatory time where crimes demand a more defective detective. To conjure the source of this text's trauma, the poet becomes a ritual detective, tracing the wound by its shadow. Meaning emerges through distortion and echo--courting what cannot be seen head-on to create a haunted grammar of grief. An ill pastoral of displacement, The Pedestrian turns domestic spaces into underworlds, the body of the exiled child into a prophetic threshold--it listens as much as it speaks, attuned to forces beyond itself._______________IMPORTANT TICKETING AND EVENT INFORMATIONTickets are $5 (plus a small processing fee).A coupon good for $5 off a copy of A Catalog of Future Mercies or The Pedestrian, or a purchase on the day of the event is included with your ticket. You will receive this coupon at the event.Please note: our events are held on the second floor. To request a reasonable accommodation or discuss your needs, contact events@boulderbookstore.com
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/boulder/serena-chopra-and-valerie-hsiung-in-conversation/100001991397483480
- **Event Categories**: art, fine-arts, literary-art, storytelling
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0
- **Event Highlights**: 
  - Duration: 1 hour
  - Location: Boulder Bookstore
  - Languages: English

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 6.24, max: 6.24, currency: USD

## Event venue details

- **city**: Boulder
- **state**: CO
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Boulder Bookstore
- **lat**: 40.017805
- **long**: -105.2810091
- **full address**: Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl Street, Boulder, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Serena Chopra and Valerie Hsiung In Conversation being held?
  - **A:** Serena Chopra and Valerie Hsiung In Conversation takes place on Wed, 19 Aug, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Wed, 19 Aug, 2026 at 07:30 pm at Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl Street, Boulder, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Serena Chopra and Valerie Hsiung In Conversation?
  - **A:** Serena Chopra and Valerie Hsiung In Conversation is organized by Boulder Book Store.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Serena Chopra and Valerie Hsiung In Conversation is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Boulder, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Serena Chopra and Valerie Hsiung In Conversation sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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