The Mill Valley Library is pleased to present a talk with Bay Area author Rita Chang-Eppig in celebration of her debut novel, Deep as the Sky, Red as The Sea, about the infamous pirate queen of the South China Sea.

For readers of Outlawed, Piranesi, and The Night Tiger, Deep as the Sky, Red as The Sea is a riveting, roaring adventure novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power.

A book of salt and grit, blood and sweat, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea is an unmissable portrait of a woman who leads with the courage and ruthlessness of our darkest and most beloved heroes. Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea was named a most anticipated novel by Goodreads, The Chicago Review of Books, The Rumpus, The Washington Post, and more.

The talk will be moderated by Anita Felicelli, author of Chimerica: A Novel and the award-winning short story collection Love Songs for a Lost Continent. Anita is on the Board of the National Book Critics Circle where she serves as Fiction Chair for 2022-2023. She is also editor of Alta Journal‘s California Book Club.

About Rita Chang-Eppig

Rita Chang-Eppig received her MFA in fiction from NYU. Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2021, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, Virginia Quarterly Review, One Story, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, the Writers Grotto, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University.

Our bookseller for this program is The Depot Bookstore.