Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

New York Times-bestselling author and playwright Chris Bohjalian will present his new novel, The Red Lotus. Bohjalian is the author of more than 20 novels, including The Sandcastle Girls and The Night Strangers. His book The Flight Attendant will be a limited TV series on HBO. He is adapting his Oprah’s Book Club novel Midwives into a play that will premiere in January. The Red Lotus is a global thriller that kicks off as an American man disappears in Vietnam and his girlfriend, an emergency room doctor, is left to unravel the mysteries surrounding his disappearance.