Reading & Book Signing with Author Jessamine Chan

Name: Artist Talk with Vail Visiting Artist Dona McAdams
Start: 2026-10-22T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-10-22T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Denison University

September 17, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm

The Beck Series welcomes author Jessamine Chan for a reading and book signing.

Notice: this information is for a past event.

Location:	Michael D. Eisner Center for the Performing Arts - Denison Museum
Ticket Info:	Free
Sponsor(s):	Beck Series Laura C. Harris Series Denison Museum

Jessamine Chan is the author of The School for Good Mothers, a New York Times bestseller, a Read with Jenna/TODAY Show Book Club pick, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a longlisted title for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Carnegie Medal, and one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2022. The novel was also named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and a Best of 2022 selection by TIME, Vogue, The New Yorker, NPR, WIRED, and Entertainment Weekly. It has been translated in over 20 languages and is set to be adapted as a TV series optioned by Jessica Chastain’s “Freckle Films.”