Thursday, 24.10, start 18:30, free entry.
Join us for an evening to celebrate the launch of The Museum of Lost and Fragile Things: A Year of Salvage by Suzanne Joinson.
Suzanne Joinson is the author of two novels, A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar and The Photographer’s Wife. Her books are translated into fourteen languages, and she was a National Bestseller in the US.
She is joined by Berlin-based authors and translator Lucy Jones & May-Lan Tan.
Suzanne grew up in a 1980s council estate in Crewe, where her parents were followers of The Divine Light Mission cult. This clash of class and counterculture destroyed her family, leaving a legacy of turmoil and poverty.
Years later, she attempts to reclaim what she’s lost and piece together the impact of a childhood infused with esoteric yoga practices, psychedelic encounters, and meditation techniques.
The Museum of Lost and Fragile Things explores the realm of mother-daughter relationships and inherited class-based trauma, in a moving, delicately-woven account of coming to terms with a complicated past.
Lucy Jones is an award-winning British translator and writer based in Berlin and the co-founder of the Transfiction collective. She also ran the Fiction Canteen reading series for ten years. Her own writing has been published by SAND journal, Pigeon Pages NYC, LitroMag and 3 a.m. Magazine. She made the long list of the CRAFT short fiction competition in 2020, guest-judged by Alexander Chee.
May-Lan Tan is the author of the short story collection Things to Make and Break and the chapbook Girly. She is a recipient of the 2021 Berlin Senate grant for non-German literature. Her fiction has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, the Atlas Review, the Reader, and Areté.
The event is free.
Lucy Jones author photo credits: Oliver Toth
Graphics by Maria Amelia Facchin