On Thursday, Sept. 15th at 7:30PM in the Joynes Reading Room, the Plan II Honors Program and the Department of English will host a reading by the award-winning author Chang-rae Lee. A professor of creative writing at Princeton University, Lee is the author of four acclaimed novels, including The Surrendered, a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Lee’s latest novel tells the story of an American soldier and a Korean orphan whose lives intersect in the aftermath of war.

“[The Surrendered] is epic in scope, masterful in execution, heart stopping at times, and heartbreaking at others. The meticulous narrative unfolds over 52 years and across three continents. Nothing is rushed; nothing is overlooked. We can even feel the buzz of a window pane on our fingertips as rumbling Japanese military vehicles approach along a gravel road…Lee understands that in art and in stories what is perhaps most valuable is not what can be explained but what can be felt.”

–The Boston Globe

A limited number of free copies of The Surrendered are available for UT honors students to pick up at the Joynes Reading Room front desk. (Come to the desk in person to inquire.) Please take a book only if you are certain that you will attend the reading.

Reading by novelist Chang-rae Lee

Thursday, Sept. 15th, 7PM

Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007)

Free and open to the public

Contact the Joynes Reading Room at 512-471-5787 or mvalentine@mail.utexas.edu with any questions.