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In this culminating event of the year’s One Bay One Book program, author Helene Wecker will discuss The Hidden Palace and will answer questions from readers and book groups.

Helene Wecker’s first novel, The Golem and the Jinni, was awarded the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature, the VCU Cabell Award for First Novel, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and was nominated for a Nebula Award and a World Fantasy Award. A Midwest native, she holds a B.A. in English from Carleton College and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in literary journals such as Joyland and Catamaran, as well as the fantasy anthology The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and children.

Co-presented by Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University. 

Helene Wecker will also be speaking on the book in person at Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley on Sunday, June 12 at 11 AM PDT. Click here to register.

Read J.’s coverage of Helene Wecker and The Hidden Palace here.