KEIJA PARSSINEN - Ruins of Us

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Adult Event

Start: 01/21/2012 4:00 pm

Novelist
KEIJA PARSSINEN
will speak & sign her award-winning debut novel
The Ruins of Us.

Saudi-born author Keija Parssinen’s stunning debut offers the intricate, emotionally resonant story of an American expatriate who discovers that her husband, a Saudi billionaire, has taken a second bride—an emotionally turbulent revelation that blinds them both to their teenaged son’s ominous first steps down the road of radicalization. Readers who enjoyed The Septembers of Shiraz will enjoy Parssinen’s story of love and betrayal, fundamentalism, family and country in the Middle East.

Keija Parssinen was born in Saudi Arabia and lived there for twelve years as a third-generation expatriate. She also grew up in Lakeway/Lake Travis and lived for many years in Austin. She earned a degree in English literature from Princeton University and received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she held a Truman Capote Fellowship and a Teaching-Writing Fellowship. For The Ruins of Us, her first novel, she received a Michener-Copernicus Award.

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