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Novelist Joan Silber has written nine books of fiction including Improvement (2017), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award. The New York Times calls her most recent novel, Secrets of Happiness (2021), “humane, elegant and wise.”

This reading is followed by discussion with the author and UCLA professor Mona Simpson, who organizes this series.

Copresented by the UCLA Department of English.

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