Tatiana Ryckman, editor of Austin-based independent publisher Awst Press, talks with NBCC Award finalist and Guggenheim Fellow Deb Olin Unferth about Ryckman’s latest novel An Ancestry of Objects, a gem of a book about a young woman contemplating the end of her life as she’s known it as tragedy after tragedy accumulates around her.

• Moderator: Deb Olin Unferth, contributor to Dear McSweeney’s: Two Decades of Letters to the Editor from Writers, Readers, and the Occasional Bewildered Consumer, judge for Best Debut Short Stories 2020: The PEN America Dau Prize
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Tatiana Ryckman, The Ancestry of Objects