

Tue, Oct 04
|Collected Works Bookstore
Bojan Louis, Sinking Bell, with IAIA Faculty & Students
Deborah Jackson Taffa, director of the MFA CW program at Institute of American Indian Art (IAIA,) will moderate and be in conversation with Bojan Louis, and IAIA Professor of Writing, Carey Powers and student, Brianna G. Reed will read from their works.
Date, Time & Location
Oct 04, 2022, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store presentation and we will live stream the evening on Zoom, please register to watch here.
If you are attending in person, for your safety and those around you, we will be requiring all audience members wear a mask.
Bojan Louis, Sinking Bell
Set in and around Flagstaff, the stories in Sinking Bell depict violent collisions of love, cultures, and racism. In his gritty and searching fiction debut, Bojan Louis draws empathetic portraits of day laborers, metalheads, motel managers, aspiring writers and musicians, construction workers, people passing through with the hope of something better somewhere else. His characters strain to temper predatory or self-destructive impulses; they raise families, choose families, and abandon families; they endeavor to end cycles of abuse and remake themselves anew.
Bojan Louis is Diné of the Naakai dine’é, born for the Áshííhí. He is the author of a book of poetry, Currents,…