W. W. Norton
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DON LEE reads from Wrack and Ruin
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome award-laureled author and former Ploughshares editor DON LEE to read from his novel and comic satire, Wrack and Ruin. Lyndon Song, a renowned sculptor, has fled New York City to become a Brussels sprouts farmer in the small California town of Rosarita Bay. Lyndon has a brother, Woody, an indicted financier turned movie producer, and Woody has a plan, involving a golf-course resort on Lyndon’s land and an aging kung-fu diva from Hong Kong with a mean kick and a meaner drinking problem. A dreadlocked buddy with an artificial leg, a small plot of exceptionally lush marijuana, two field biologists studying western snowy plovers, a disgraced museum curator, and Lyndon’s great love, the impulsive mayor of Rosarita Bay—these are only some of the complications in Lyndon and Woody’s lives over one madcap Labor Day weekend.
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Don Lee teaches creative writing at Macalester College and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. His story collection Yellow won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and his novel Country of Origin won an American Book Award and the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. He has received an O. Henry Award and a Pushcart Prize as well as fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the St. Botolph Club Foundation.
From 1988 to 2007, he was the editor of the literary journal Ploughshares.
Photo credit: Michele McDonald
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