Relationships Under Stress

In K-Ming Chang’s Cecilia, a woman named Seven returns to her obsessive girlhood friendship with Cecilia, who has reappeared in her life, resulting in a fever of eroticism, grotesque desire, and violence. Chris Knapp’s States of Emergency intertwines a failing marriage with the failing world, charting how a relationship might come together (or fall apart) in a state of emergency. Pol Guasch’s Napalm in the Heart follows star-crossed lovers under siege as their search for safety belies the moral murkiness of survival. Join these authors for a compelling conversation about complex relationships and how crisis impacts them. Moderated by Zain Khalid, a NBF  “5 under 35” honoree and author of Brother Alive.