Meet Vanessa Hua, Author of Coyoteland
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On Sunday, September 13 at 1:00 PM , San Mateo County Libraries welcomes Bay Area author Vanessa Hua to the San Carlos Library to discuss her novel, Coyoteland . Urgent, riveting, and deeply heartfelt, full of sharp wit and keen empathy, Coyoteland is at once a delicious suburban drama and an unflinching exploration of our current moment. When Jin Chang moves with his wife and daughters to El Nido, a privileged community in the hills east of Berkeley, he hopes it will finally be the end of his bad luck and years of scraping by. What his family doesn’t know is that he’s bending the rules for one final scheme: to make it big in real estate. As his daughter Jane struggles to navigate cliques, she befriends another teen named Tasha in the wake of a coyote attack. Together their plot to expose El Nido's hypocrisies amongst an escalating fire season, a roaming coyote creating chaos, and a series of scandals. About Vanessa Hua Vanessa Hua is the author of two national bestsellers, a New York Times Editors’ Pick, as well as honors from the de Groot Foundation, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Asian American Journalists Association, among others. Previously, she was an award-winning columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle .
