As part of her UK tour celebrating the publication of her most recent novel The Sleep Watcher, join Rowan Hisayo Buchanan at Bookbag!
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of several novels including; Harmless Like You, Starling Days, and the upcoming The Sleep Watcher. Her work has received numerous awards, such as the Betty Trask Award and the 2017 Author's Club First Novel Award. Buchanan is also the editor of Go Home!, an anthology of stories from Asian American writers, and Dog Hearted, and has essays featured in East Side Voices, an anthology celebrating East & Southeast Asian writers.
In this event, Buchanan will be in conversation with writer Davina Quinlivan, whose memoir Shalimar was published by Little Toller last year, and is a story of family and migration.
The Sleep Watcher
When she is sixteen, Kit suffers a summer of peculiar sleeplessness that isn't quite what it seems. Her body lies in bed while she wanders through her family home, the streets of her run-down seaside town and into the houses of friends and strangers. Unseen and unheard, she witnesses her parents and their fracturing relationship. Her home thrums with quiet violence that she can no longer ignore. With this secret knowledge it becomes impossible not to react and a single choice soon changes everything.
Intimate, tense and exquisitely observed, The Sleep Watcher is a moving portrait of family, danger and guilt, captured through the strange summer heat of adolescence.
Cost: Free
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