The Dead Are Gods: Conversation with Eirinie Carson
Past Event
May 20,2023
at the Dance Palace Church Space, 503 B Street, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956
Free. Register HERE
Co-presented with Point Reyes Books
Join Mesa Refuge’s Program Coordinator Eirinie Carson for her debut book release of her memoir The Dead Are Gods. Eirinie will be in conversation with Mesa Refuge alum and board member Susan Ito.
After an unexpected phone call on an early morning in 2018, writer and model Eirinie Carson learned of her best friend Larissa’s death. In the wake of her shock, Eirinie attempts to make sense of the events leading up to Larissa’s death and uncovers startling secrets about her life in the process.
The Dead Are Gods is Eirinie’s striking, intimate, and profoundly moving depiction of life after a sudden loss. Amid navigating moments of intense grief, Eirinie is overwhelmed by her love for Larissa. She finds power in pulling moments of joy from the depths of her emotion. Eirinie’s portrayal of what love feels like after death bursts from the page alongside a timely, honest, and personal exploration of Black love and Black life. Perhaps, Eirinie proposes, “The only way out is through.”
Eirinie Carson is a Black British Londoner and writer living in California. She is a mother of two children, Luka and Selah. Her work is published in the Sonora Review and she is a frequent contributor to Mother magazine She is also the recipient of the Teaching Fellowship from Craigardan, NY. A member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto, Eirinie writes about motherhood, grief, and relationships. Eirinie lives in Northern California with her musician husband and their one dog and two daughters. The Dead are Gods is her first book.
Host Susan Ito has been a columnist and editor at Literary Mama. Her work has appeared in Growing Up Asian American, Choice, Hip Mama, and The Bellevue Literary Review. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto and is on the faculty of the MFA Programs at Mills College and Bay Path University. She has performed her solo show, The Ice Cream Gene nationally. She is currently working on an adaption of Untold, stories of reproductive stigma.