Note from The Booksmith on 1.21: Due to incredible demand, we've blown through our advanced tickets/RSVPS for this event. THANK YOU! If you have not RSVP'd and would still like to attend, you'll want to show up at the shop at 6:45 on 3.14 and inquire with a staff member about capacity or our waitlist. No guarantees! Will likely be standing room, but you will get to enter the signing line to meet Kaveh and Tommy.

Questions? [email protected]

See you in March!

The Booksmith is thrilled to be welcoming both Tommy Orange and Kaveh Akbar to the shop for the joint paperback releases of their latest works, Wandering Stars and Marytr! This will be an incredible opportunity to celebrate both the immense success these books have had in the last year and also the joy of making art alongside a dear friend. Join us!

RSVP is not required, but appreciated. Seats are limited and can be guaranteed with the purchase of a book.

About Wandering Stars

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There (“Pure soaring beauty.”The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.

About Martyr!

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW’S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR • A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.

About the authors

TOMMY ORANGE is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Oakland, California. His first book, There There, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the 2019 American Book Award. He lives in Oakland, California.

KAVEH AKBAR’s poems appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf, in addition to a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic. He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine. He lives in Iowa City.

About the bookstore

The Booksmith is an independent bookstore located in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco since 1976.