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02.17: Kyle Boelte in Conversation with Justin Hocking

2015-01-16 00:05:23| Powells Books Events Calendar

At age 30, Kyle Boelte finds himself living in San Francisco, where the summer fog blows inland off the ocean and the landscape changes moment to moment. Amidst this ever-changing sea of fog, Boelte struggles to remember his brother Kris, who committed suicide in the family's Denver home when Boelte was just 13. In his impressive debut, The Beautiful Unseen (Soft Skull Press), Boelte sets up a dual narrative: one investigates San Francisco's climate to explain the science behind the omnipresent fog; another explores Boelte's memory as well as letters, notes, newspaper articles, and other artifacts that tell the story of his brother's short life and eventual suicide. Weaving a complex and engaging story from personal, historical, and environmental threads, Boelte's search for meaning takes him to a range of unexpected places. The Beautiful Unseen is as much a meditation on experiencing loss at an early age as it is a study of the impermanence of memory, the science of fog, and the history of San Francisco. Boelte will be joined in conversation by Justin Hocking, author of The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld.

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