Stephanie Scott to Discuss WHAT’S LEFT OF ME IS YOURS with Jamie Ford via Zoom (6/27)
Stephanie Scott, author WHAT’S LEFT OF ME IS YOURS (Doubleday), will be in conversation with fellow Penguin Random House author Jamie Ford via at a Third Place Books virtual event via Zoom on Saturday, June 27 at 4:00pm (ET).
WHAT’S LEFT OF ME IS YOURS is a gripping debut set in modern-day Tokyo and inspired by a true crime about a love triangle. The novel also raises questions of how we reconcile that those who commit heinous crimes were once capable of love – and what that means for those of us left behind?
Ms. Scott is a Singaporean and British writer who was born and raised in South East Asia. She read English Literature at the Universities of York and Cambridge and holds an M.St in Creative Writing from Oxford University. Scott was awarded a British Association of Japanese Studies Toshiba Studentship for her anthropological work on What’s Left of Me Is Yours and has been made a member of the British Japanese Law Association as a result of her research. She also won the A.M. Heath Prize, the Jerwood Arvon Prize for Prose Fiction, and was a runner-up for the Bridport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award.
The son of a Chinese American father, Jamie Ford is the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, which won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and Songs of Willow Frost. Having grown up in Seattle, he now lives in Montana with his wife and children.
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