Teo Anand, former ne’er-do-well second son of the Anand Tech empire and current solar fugitive, has just crash-landed on the moon after escaping the latest attempt on his life. But if anyone can help exonerate him, it’s his best friend, bold Korean space pilot Ocean Yoon. Falsely accused of murdering his family, Teo is running out of both time and options. But loyalties are uncertain in their group of steadfast comrades and tentative new allies, and it’s difficult to know who to trust in the tangled web that awaits them in Artemis, a city on the moon rich in Korean history and haunted by ghosts from Teo’s and Ocean’s pasts...

Teo’s Durumi brings author Elaine U. Cho’s space-opera duology to an exhilarating close, one that contends with questions of identity and acceptance, grief and redemption, and loyalty and sacrifice.

Cho is also the author of Ocean’s Godori. She has an MFA in flute performance from CalArts and is a former film critic, former bookseller at Elliott Bay Book Company, and current associate editor for Shelf Awareness. She will be in conversation with Alice Stephens, author of the novel Famous Adopted People, a book reviewer, essayist, and short-story writer. 

Hosted by Politics and Prose at Union Market, 1324 4th St., NE, Washington, DC. Learn more here.