Asian American Center: An Evening with R.F. Kuang

*Tickets on sale Tuesday 9/16 at 10:30am. Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.*

**Event sold out. If you would like to be placed on a waitlist, please visit go.tufts.edu/rfkuang_waitlist(opens in a new tab).**

The Asian American Center is excited to welcome #1 New York Times Bestselling author and scholar R.F. Kuang for a conversation on Friday, October 10th at 7pm in Distler Auditorium. The event will also include an audience Q&A session. Doors open at 7pm. ​​

Ticket Pricing & Autographed Copy of Katabasis:

• Tufts Community Member Ticket: $0
• Tufts Community Member Ticket & Signed Copy of Katabasis: $32 plus fees
• General Public Ticket: $5 plus fees
• General Public Ticket & Signed Copy of Katabasis: $32 plus fees

A limited number of books from R.F. Kuang's catalogue will be available for purchase at the event, courtesy of Narrative Bookshop. If you purchase a copy of Katabasis with your ticket please note that your book will be autographed but not personalized by R.F. Kuang and will be available for pick up after the event.

About R.F. Kuang:

Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, and Yellowface.

Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature.

About the Book - Katabasis:

Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own.

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek:

The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.

That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.

Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….

Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.

With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.

But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.