Blue Light Hours — Book Author Conversation

A young Brazilian woman leaves Natal on a scholarship to a college in Vermont. She's never seen snow. She can't afford to fly home. Every night, she and her mother sit in front of their laptops and talk...about neighbours, weather, nothing in particular. Blue Light Hours is a novel about the distance between a mother and a daughter held together by a glowing screen, and the slow way that distance changes them both.

Bruna Dantas Lobato is a Brazilian writer and translator. She won the 2023 National Book Award in Translated Literature for The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, and A Public Space. Born and raised in Natal, she lives in Iowa. Blue Light Hours is her first novel.

On July 8, we're so happy to announce that Bruna will be in conversation with Carolina Vaz Pinto, a brilliant editorial assistant at Leya, a Portuguese publishing house, and one of those voracious readers who gravitates toward books about melancholy, belonging and conflicted, complex characters.

Wednesday, July 8, 6.30pm