Writer Adam Johnson is coming to Houston for an event Oct. 15 at the Wortham Center as a part of Inprint’s Margarett Root Brown Reading Series .

Johnson, a novelist and short story writer, won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2012 novel, The Orphan Master’s Son , which envisioned life in the totalitarian state of North Korea.

And he won the National Book Award for his 2015 collection of short stories, Fortune Smiles .

His latest novel, which took him ten years to write, is called The Wayfinder , and its sprawling tale chronicles the lives of those living on Polynesian islands during the Tu'i Tonga Empire centuries ago. A young girl must make an epic journey across the vast open ocean empire to save her people from starvation.

In an interview with Houston Matters producer

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