Ananda Lima Presents Her Acclaimed Short Story Collection, CRAFT!

Join us to celebrate Chicago writer Ananda Lima and her acclaimed short story collection CRAFT: Stories I Wrote for the Devil.

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about things that are both impossible and true.

Lima lures readers into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil where they’ll find bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of people who are not dead. Once there, she speaks to modern Brazilian-American immigrant experiences–of ambition, fear, longing, and belonging—and reveals the porousness of storytelling and of the places we call home.

With humor, an exquisite imagination, and a voice praised as “singular and wise and fresh” (Cathy Park Hong), Lima joins the literary lineage of Bulgakov and Lispector and the company of writers today like Ted Chiang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.

Ananda will be joined in conversation by our own Gayle Brandeis, whose debut short story collection will be published in 2027! We hope you can join us!

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• This Sunday, 3rd August, 02:00 pm, Book Launch for BodyTalk by local writer and movement therapist Erica Hornthal! in Highland Park
• Next Saturday, 9th August, 02:00 pm, Mindy Uhrlaub presents her memoir Last Nerve in conversation with Leslie Lindsay! in Highland Park

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