Truth and Consequences: A Reading from Three Novels

Pulitzer Prize-winning Robert Olen Butler‘s latest novel is Perfume River, an exquisite exploration of family ties and the legacy of the Vietnam War through the portrait of a single North Florida family. Juan Gabriel Vasquez’s Reputations is a novel about a powerful political cartoonist who is paid a visit from a woman who forces him to reevaluate his life and work. From the universally admired, award-winning author, Ha Jin, comes The Boat Rocker, an urgent, timely novel that follows an aspiring author, an outrageous book idea, and a lone journalist’s dogged quest for truth in the Internet age.