In Jessica Johns’s horror-laced debut novel, Bad Cree, a young woman must confront how a legacy of violence has shaped her family, her community and the land they share. Tsering Yangsom Lama’s first novel, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies, traces a Tibetan family’s fifty-year journey through exile to new lives in an unfamiliar place. Join event host Paige Maylott as she helps gritLIT welcome two wonderful new writers to the 2023 festival.