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Author Talk! Larissa Pham: Discipline w/ Matt Huynh

“We're so excited to welcome you to this upcoming author talk!

  • Each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Yellow Peril Books Gift Card. Each ticket also includes a beverage and snacks, provided by our host, Larry’s Cà Phê.

  • A book signing will follow the conversation.

  • Additional copies of Discipline and Larissa's essay collection, Pop Song, will be available for purchase at the event.

  • Doors open at 6:30pm, programming will begin at 7:00pm

  • Community Guidelines and Rules

    • You commit to treating everyone with respect and care

    • Stay home if you feel sick!

If you would like to attend but the ticket cost is prohibitive, please reach out to contact@yellowperilbooks.com and we will try to find a solution! We never want lack of funds to be a barrier to entry.

About Discipline

A taut, electrifying debut about a woman forced to confront unsettling truths about herself, her past, and the life she rebuilt following a ruinous affair with her former mentor, from a “lit world phenom” (Harper’s Bazaar)

“An exhilarating, exquisite book, full of an eerie intelligence and startling compassion . . . a pitch-perfect novel.”—Ayșegül Savaș, author of The Anthropologists

I have the sense that something is being drawn between us. Not drawn as in line but as in arrow pulled back. Yet I don’t know which of us holds the bow, and which of us faces the arrow.

Christine is on tour for her novel, a revenge fantasy based on a real-life relationship gone bad with an older professor ten years prior. Now on the road, she’s seeking answers—about how to live a good life and what it means to make art—through intimate conversations with strangers, past lovers, and friends.

But when the antagonist of her novel—her old painting professor—reaches out in a series of sly communiques after years of silence to tell her that he’s read her book, Christine must reckon with what it means to lose the reins of a narrative she wrote precisely to maintain control. When her professor invites her to join him at his house, on a remote island off the coast of Maine, their encounter threatens to change the very foundations of her life as she’s imagined it.

A pristine and provocative high-wire act toggling the fictions we construct for ourselves just to survive and the possibilities that lie beyond them, Discipline launches a spellbinding inquiry into the nature of art-making and rigor, intimacy and attention, punishment and release.”

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