Greg Sarris celebrates the release of his latest book published by Heyday, The Forgetters, in conversation with Susan Straight at Skylight Books.

In-person event. 1818 N Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA.

Greg Sarris is currently serving his sixteenth term as Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and his first term as board chair for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. He is a member of the Board of Regents of the University of California. His publications include Keeping Slug Woman Alive (1993), Grand Avenue (1994, reissued 2015 and adapted for film on HBO), Watermelon Nights (1998, reissued 2021), How a Mountain Was Made (2017), Becoming Story (2022), and most recently The Forgetters (2024). Greg lives and works in Sonoma County, California. Visit his website at greg-sarris.com.

Susan Straight’s most recent novel Mecca, was published March 2022 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and released in paperback March 2023. Mecca was a national bestseller, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, and named a best novel of the year by The Washington Post and NPR, as well as a Top Ten California Book by the New York Times, and winner of the Southwest Book of the Year for Fiction.