Yuba Lit Presents: Christian Kiefer reads and discusses Phantoms

Years after both wars, a Vietnam veteran named John Wilson begins to piece together the story of Ray Takahashi, a young Japanese American soldier who fought in World War II while his family was forced to abandon their Placer County farm for an internment camp. What sins and mysteries are the Takahashis and their former neighbors, the Wilsons, hiding?

Of Kiefer’s latest novel, a starred review from Kirkus raves: “It’s a complex narrative structure, but this allows Kiefer to constantly overlay past and present and to recognize, through John, the cycles in which his character, and in fact the country, remains trapped—cycles of racism, cycles of war, and cycles of young men who return home guilty of crimes, the full ramifications of which they couldn’t possibly understand . . . It will break your heart, and in the breaking, fill you with bittersweet but luminous joy.”

Hear acclaimed Auburn novelist Kiefer read and discuss his deeply researched new book—and ask him a question of your own during the Q and A.

Plus: Bring a poem or a page of your own and draw a raffle ticket to read in Yuba Lit’s famous opening audience flash round! Five audience members will be chosen.

Christian Kiefer’s previous novels are The Animals and The Infinite Tides, and a novella, One Day Soon Time Will Have No Place Left to Hide.

Thursday, September 12^th, 7 p.m.

Doors open at 6:30

The Wild Eye Pub, 535 Mill St., Grass Valley

No-host bar and dinner available

Tickets: $10 at the door, $8 in advance, available at wildeyepub.com

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