September 24
Wednesday, 7 PM

Writing the Cold War: James Carroll in conversation with Aimee Liu
National Book Award winner James Carroll is one of those rare few who has written popular and provocative works of fiction and nonfiction including his best selling history, Constantine's Sword, and his best selling novel Mortal Friends. In his new novel Secret Father, Carroll offers a classic story of espionage and love set in Soviet-controlled Berlin in 1961.

Selective Bibliography on James Carroll

Aimee Liu’s newest novel Flash House is a tale of suspense and Cold War intrigue set in Central Asia. It centers on an American journalist’s wife whose quest to rescue her missing husband presses her into an unlikely alliance with an extraordinary native child and an Australian spy. Her last novel, Cloud Mountain, was based on the true story of Liu's American grandmother and Chinese revolutionary grandfather.

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