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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Jimin Han: Dreamt I Found You w/ Marie Myung-Ok Lee (Hybrid)
DESCRIPTION:” inspired outing from Han…It’s an engrossing story of the power of family and true love.” —Publishers Weekly\n\n\nEvent guidelines: \n\nEach ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.\nAdditional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.\nA signing will follow the talk.\nHome address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/_Amck32bCXg\nAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well\, please do not come to the event\, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.\n\nIf you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations\, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net. \n  \nFrom the critically acclaimed author of The Apology comes a contemporary retelling of Korea’s Romeo & Juliet\, as the cousin of the star-crossed lovers helps them avoid a tragic fate. \nWhen Dahee Shin was nine years old\, she made a promise to protect her favorite cousin\, Channing\, who has always been like a sister to her. Now\, at thirty\, Dahee has found herself in a Korean American community in a New England beach town\, once more running to the rescue of her debt-ridden relative. Ever the idealist\, Channing—who has spent her life haunted by the tragic story of Chunhyang and Mongryong\, Korea’s parallel Romeo & Juliet—has fallen in love with Minjae Oh\, all the while fending off the advances of powerful\, manipulative Kent Cho\, a local politician. As Channing and Minjae’s romance blossoms\, and as Kent’s suspicion and obsession grow\, Dahee begins to realize that it may be up to her to make sure her cousin and beloved escape Chunhyang and Mongryong’s doomed end. \nFor fans of Hello Beautiful\, Dreamt I Found You is a wondrous\, tender retelling of Korea’s most classic love story\, steeped in the travails of a rigid class system\, the power of premonition\, and shot through with Korean folklore and magic. \nJimin Han was born in Seoul\, South Korea\, and grew up in Providence\, Rhode Island; Dayton\, Ohio; and Jamestown\, New York. She is the author of A Small Revolution and The Apology. She has written for NPR’s Weekend America\, Poets and Writers Magazine\, Catapult Magazine\, Platypus Press\, and Citric Acid Literary Journal\, among others. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and Pace University\, as well as at community writing centers. She lives outside New York City. \nMarie Myung-Ok Lee is the author of the novel The Evening Hero. A cofounder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, she is also on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and teaches fiction at Columbia University.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/in-store-jimin-han-dreamt-i-found-you-w-marie-myung-ok-lee/
LOCATION:Books Are Magic Montague\, 122 Montague Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Hybrid,In Person,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Sana Javeri Kadri & Asha Loupy: Diaspora Spice Co. Cookbook w/ Samah Dada (Hybrid)
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating beautiful\, simple\, and seasonal cooking with 85 recipes adapted from India and Sri Lanka’s best family spice farms\n\n\nEvent guidelines: \n\nEach ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.\nAdditional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.\nA signing will follow the talk.\nHome address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/dUU84dPO8EE\nAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well\, please do not come to the event\, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.\n\nIf you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations\, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net. \n  \nFrom Diaspora Spice Co.\, the progressive spice company rooted in flavor and equity\, comes a cookbook celebrating beautiful\, simple\, and seasonal cooking with 85 recipes adapted from India and Sri Lanka’s best family spice farms. \nDiaspora Spice Co. sources the most flavorful\, fresh spices in the world from 150 regenerative farms across South Asia—from elders\, indigenous communities\, young changemakers\, and brilliant multi-generational farming families across India and Sri Lanka who are leading the way in sustainable and climate change–resistant agriculture. Filled with culinary storytelling\, The Diaspora Spice Co. Cookbook highlights these farmers and their spices with profiles and evocative photography\, plus 85 recipes for simple\, seasonal\, and powerfully delicious meals. \nCEO and founder Sana Javeri Kadri and recipe writer Asha Loupy realized that eating with the people who grow our spices unveils a whole new dimension in our cooking. For instance\, the Mir family\, who works all year to grow and harvest their saffron\, shared not only their technique for blooming the vibrant spice and how to make sure every thread is fully utilized\, but their unforgettably delicious dishes. Adapted for a global pantry\, these recipes share the warmth of true South Asian home cooking at its truest and tastiest\, starting with chutneys & pickles\, snacks\, and veggies\, traveling through to mains from the sea and from the land\, rice and breads\, and ending with drinks and desserts. \n  \nSana Javeri Kadri is the founder of Diaspora Spice Co\, a direct trade spice company building a radically equitable\, sustainable\, and more delicious spice supply chain. Born and raised in Mumbai\, India\, in a big\, mixed-up Muslim-Jain-Hindu family where food was the great unifier. She founded Diaspora Spice Co. in 2017 with a bold vision and a shoestring budget. Since then\, it has grown exponentially\, now working with more than 150 regenerative farms across India and Sri Lanka\, paying $3.1 million directly to farm partners over the past 6.5 years\, and bringing 27 single-origin spices and 13 bestselling blends to the world. With over 125\,000 customers globally and products stocked in 525+ retail stores across the US and UK\, the company is reshaping the spice trade—one fair\, flavorful\, and transparently sourced spice at a time. Sana currently splits her time between Mumbai\, India\, and Menlo Park\, California\, continuing to push for a food system that values the farmers and flavor at its foundation. \nAsha Loupy is an Oakland-based food writer\, recipe developer\, and co-author of The Diaspora Spice Co. Cookbook. She worked in the specialty food industry—from cheesemonger to grocery buyer—for over a decade before joining Diaspora Spice Co. in 2020\, where she served as Recipe Editor for 5+ years. She has contributed to cookbooks like Dan Pashman’s Anything’s Pastable and Joe Yonan’s Mastering the Art of Plant-Based Cooking\, in addition to publications like Bon Appétit\, Food52\, The Kitchn\, The Washington Post\, and Epicurious. You can also find Asha’s recipes in her weekly Substack newsletter\, From Head to Table\, and her forthcoming solo cookbook\, Dinner Season (out Fall 2027). \n  \nSamah Dada is a New York City–based recipe developer\, food photographer\, and the blogger behind Dada Eats. Drawing from her Indian heritage and inspired by the foodscapes of London\, California\, and New York\, she is the host of Cooking with Samah Dada on the Today show’s digital channel.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/sana-javeri-kadri-asha-loupy-diaspora-spice-co-cookbook-w-samah-dada/
LOCATION:Books Are Magic Montague\, 122 Montague Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Food,Hybrid,In Person,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Book event: Patmeena Sabit: Good People with Prachi Gupta (Hybrid)
DESCRIPTION:“Good People is a thrilling tour de force of a novel. I’ll be recommending this book to everyone.” —Ann Patchett\n\n\nEvent guidelines: \n\nEach ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.\nAdditional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.\nA signing will follow the talk.\nHome address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/18pKigEfvV8\nAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well\, please do not come to the event\, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.\n\nIf you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations\, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net. \n  \nZorah Sharaf could do no wrong. Zorah Sharaf brought shame upon her family. What’s the truth? Depends on who you ask. \nThe Sharaf family is the picture of success. Prosperous\, rich\, happy. They came to this country as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. And now\, after years of hard work\, they live in the most exclusive neighborhood\, their growing family attending the most prestigious schools. Zorah\, the eldest daughter\, is the apple of her father’s eye. \nWhen an unthinkable tragedy strikes\, everyone is left reeling and the family is thrust into the court of public opinion. There is talk that behind closed doors the Sharafs’ happy household was anything but. Did the Sharaf family achieve the American dream? Or was the image of the model immigrant family just a façade? \nLike a literary game of ping-pong\, Good People compels the reader to reconsider what might have happened even on the previous page. Told through a kaleidoscope of perspectives\, it is a riveting\, provocative\, and haunting story of family—sisters\, brothers\, mothers\, fathers\, and the communities that claim us as family in difficult times. \n  \nPatmeena Sabit was born in Kabul a few years after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. When she was a month old\, her family fled the conflict and became refugees in Pakistan\, joining the millions of other Afghans that had sought refuge there. They later moved to the United States and she grew up in Virginia. She currently lives in Toronto. \n  \nPrachi Gupta is an award-winning journalist and former senior reporter at Jezebel. They Called Us Exceptional was longlisted for a PEN/Open Book Award. She won a Writers Guild Award for her investigative essay “Stories About My Brother.” Her work was featured in The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 and has appeared in The Atlantic\, The Washington Post Magazine\, Marie Claire\, Salon\, Elle\, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/in-store-patmeena-sabit-good-people-w-prachi-gupta/
LOCATION:Books Are Magic Montague\, 122 Montague Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Eshani Surya: Ravishing w/ Roxane Gay (Hybrid)
DESCRIPTION:“As deep as girlhood friendship\, and as terrifying as beauty itself: Ravishing is a necessary novel for our times.” —Meg Elison\n\n\n\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/wzh0H1KjdXk\n\nEvent guidelines: \n\nEach ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.\nAdditional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.\nA signing will follow the talk.\nHome address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/wzh0H1KjdXk\nAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well\, please do not come to the event\, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.\n\nIf you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations\, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net. \nA brilliant and compelling debut\, Ravishing shines a light on the dark enticements of the beauty industry and how it capitalizes on our desire to be someone we are not. \nA provocative\, darkly surreal novel of two Indian American siblings caught in the clutches of a beauty tech company\, Ravishing is a searing portrait of the beauty industry’s dangerous ability to change people’s relationship to their bodies and the cult-like grip it has on youth. \nFor teenage Kashmira\, it’s painful to look in the mirror; she has her father’s face\, and every feature is a reminder of his abandonment. When a friend introduces her to Evolvoir\, a beauty product that changes users’ features\, Kashmira is quickly hooked on how it allows her to erase the triggers of her grief. Meanwhile\, at Evolvoir’s corporate offices\, Kashmira’s estranged brother Nikhil first sees the product as an opportunity to make a difference and a name for himself\, but is quickly mired in corporate complicity as reports surface of the product causing severe pain and persistent symptoms in some users. As chaos ensues\, Kashmira is hospitalized and must negotiate the constraints of her new reality\, while Nikhil uncovers a vicious truth that will force him to decide where his loyalties lie. \nPerfect for readers of Gold Diggers and You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine\, Ravishing is a visceral\, yet immensely tender\, coming-of-age story of two Indian American siblings caught in the clutches of a predatory beauty tech company\, providing an illuminating portrait of the complexities of growing up brown\, chronic illness\, and our relationship to ourselves. \n  \nEshani Surya is a chronically ill South Asian writer living in Philadelphia. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and is a 2023 finalist for the A.C. Bose Grant for Speculative Literature\, a 2022 Asian Women Writer’s Workshop mentee\, a 2022 Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop scholarship recipient\, and a 2021 Mae Fellowship recipient. Ravishing is her first novel. \n  \nRoxane Gay is a writer\, editor\, and professor. She is the author of several bestselling books including Bad Feminist\, Hunger\, Difficult Women\, and Opinions A Decade of Arguments\, Criticism\, and Minding Other People’s Business. She is also the author of the Eisner Award winning World of Wakanda for Marvel and the editor of Best American Short Stories 2018. Her short stories and essays can be found in Harper’s Bazaar\, A Public Space\, McSweeney’s\, Tin House\, Oxford American\, American Short Fiction\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and the editor of an eponymous imprint at Grove Atlantic. In 2018\, she won a Guggenheim fellowship. She is also the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media\, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and working on several books and film and television projects. Her newsletter\, The Audacity\, is hosted at Substack.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/in-store-eshani-surya-ravishing-w-roxane-gay/
LOCATION:Books Are Magic Montague\, 122 Montague Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Hybrid,In Person,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mother-Son Double Book Launch: Heartland Masala; Extremely Happy Holidays (Hybrid)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special double launch with mother-son duos Auyon & Jyoti Mukharji\, and Devin McEwan & Sandra Boynton!\n\n\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/F0FU77Wwvls\n\n\n\n\nEvent guidelines: \n\nAll attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face mask at all times.\nTickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store\, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured books or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.\nAdditional copies of the books will be available for purchase at the event.\nA signing will follow the talk.\nHome address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/F0FU77Wwvls\nAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well\, please do not come to the event\, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.\n\nIf you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations\, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net. \n  \nHeartland Masala: \nHeartland Masala pairs 99 recipes from Indian cooking instructor Jyoti Mukharji with cultural and historical essays by her son Auyon Mukharji. An effervescent celebration of Indian cuisine and the American immigrant experience\, this beautiful cookbook is playful\, informative\, and utterly original. \n“Heartland Masala is a joyful\, inspiring cookbook that shows off the dazzling culinary inventiveness of an appealing mother-son cooking duo.“—Foreword Reviews\, Starred Review \nFilled with rich storytelling\, stunning visuals\, and a blend of modern and traditional dishes\, this book is both a heartfelt portrait of one Midwestern family and a practical guide to cooking incredible Indian meals at home. \n  \nJyoti Mukharji is a chef\, teacher\, and retired physician. She immigrated to the US from India in the late 1970s\, and she began teaching weekly Indian cooking classes out of her home in Prairie Village\, KS in 2010. Jyoti has since welcomed several thousand students into her kitchen\, and her writing and teaching have been celebrated in press and radio outlets across the Midwest. Jyoti’s team includes her husband Jhulan (art director)\, her eldest son Arnob (grocery shopping deputy)\, her middle son Auyon (musical guest)\, and her youngest son Aroop (copy editor). \nAuyon Mukharji is a musician\, writer\, and culinary historian who spends most of his time thinking about food. He studied biology at Williams College and was awarded a Watson Fellowship in 2007 to study self-expression in folk music. Since 2009\, Auyon has toured with\, and cooked for\, the acclaimed indie-folk band Darlingside. He otherwise finds time to work in and around kitchens (and farms) in both his hometown of Kansas City and his adopted state-of-residence of Massachusetts. \n  \nExtremely Happy Holidays: \nIt’s the most wonderful time of the year\, namely COCKTAIL TIME! \nWhat better way to honor and enjoy all the holidays of a year than to toast each one with a fabulous new cocktail? This exuberant little book takes you from New Year’s Day all the way to New Year’s Eve\, with stops along the way at the other festive holidays of the year: Groundhog Day\, Super Bowl Sunday\, Valentine’s Day\, St. Patrick’s Day\, April Fools’ Day\, Easter\, Cinco de Mayo\, Mother’s Day\, Father’s Day\, Independence Day\, Talk Like a Pirate Day\, Halloween\, Thanksgiving\, Hanukkah\, and Christmas. McEwan’s original creations are truly wonderful\, and he is a droll and delightful guide through the tools and techniques the reader will need to make all these snazzy cocktails and mocktails at home. The book is designed and illustrated by the inimitable Sandra Boynton\, who happens to be the author’s mother. \n  \nDevin C.B. McEwan will do just about anything to avoid getting a proper grown-up job. Since 2001\, he’s been splish-splashing down the world’s rivers as a member of the U.S. Canoe & Kayak Team (and 2016 Olympic Team). An avid amateur mixologist\, McEwan was recently told by a drinking buddy\, “You should write a book! And I’ll do the illustrations!” While such drunken ramblings are usually best ignored\, in this case the drinking buddy in question was Sandra Boynton\, internationally celebrated cartoonist and\, incidentally\, McEwan’s mother—so how could he say no? \n  \nSandra Boynton is the author’s mother. When she’s not busy taste-testing cocktails\, Boynton writes/illustrates books and writes/produces music. She’s worked with B.B. King\, Yo-Yo Ma\, Alison Krauss\, Lyle Lovett\, Patti LuPone\, Brian Wilson\, Kacey Musgraves\, Ben Folds\, Stanley Tucci\, Meryl Streep\, “Weird Al” Yankovic and Kate Winslet (a duet)\, Darius Rucker\, Zooey Deschanel\, Dwight Yoakam\, Patrick Warburton\, and others. But Devin is her favorite collaborator because NOT ONE of those other people ever even OFFERED to make her a cocktail.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/mother-son-double-book-launch-heartland-masala-extremely-happy-holidays/
LOCATION:Books Are Magic Montague\, 122 Montague Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
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SUMMARY:In-Store: Lana Lin: The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam w/ Monique Truong (Hybrid)
DESCRIPTION:“Lyrical prose\, palpable love\, and formal audacity coalesce to make this a must-read.” —Publishers Weekly starred review\n\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/8_fAjTk-Rfg\n\n\nEvent guidelines: \n\nEach ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.\nAdditional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.\nA signing will follow the talk.\nHome address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/8_fAjTk-Rfg\nAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well\, please do not come to the event\, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.\n\nIf you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations\, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. \nSituated between memoir\, social criticism\, and conceptual art\, The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam is an incisive response to a modernist classic and an affecting exploration of the poetics and politics of our times. \nIn her 1933 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas\, Gertrude Stein invented a new literary form by narrating her own story from the perspective of her partner\, blurring the lines between portrait and self-portrait. Almost a century later\, experimental filmmaker and artist Lana Lin has resurrected Stein’s project to tell a different story of queer love\, life\, and artistic collaboration. \nAt heart a candid chronicle of her partner Lan Thao’s life journey from Việt Nam during the war\, and her own troubled history as a gender-queer Taiwanese American\, Lin draws in subjects as varied as photography\, cancer\, tropical fruit\, 9/11\, and Eve Sedgwick’s eyeglasses\, weaving an intimate landscape of living that is also a critical investigation of race and gender. \nLana Lin is a writer\, artist\, and filmmaker based in New York and Connecticut. She is the author of the book Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer and film and video works including The Cancer Journals Revisited. Her various works and collaborative projects (with Lan Thao Lam as “Lin + Lam”) have exhibited at festivals and art and educational spaces throughout the world\, including the Museum of Modern Art\, Whitney Museum\, and New Museum\, New York; The National Gallery of Art\, Washington\, D.C.; Gasworks\, London; the Taiwan International Documentary Festival and Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute\, New Taipei City; Arko Art Center\, Korean Arts Council\, Seoul; and the 2018 Busan Biennale. Having had three years of psychoanalytic training before dropping out\, she sometimes still dreams of becoming a psychoanalyst one day. \nBorn in Saigon\, South Vietnam\, Monique Truong came to the U.S. as a refugee in 1975. She’s a novelist\, essayist\, children’s book author\, and librettist. Her novels are The Sweetest Fruits (Viking\, 2019)\, Bitter in the Mouth (Random House\, 2010)\, and the national bestseller The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin\, 2003)\, with German translations published by C.H. Beck. Her children’s picture book Mai’s Áo Dài (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books\, 2025) is co-written with Thai Nguyen and illustrated by Dung Ho. A graduate of Yale College and Columbia Law School\, she’s received a Guggenheim Fellowship\, Hodder Fellowship\, American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Rosenthal Family Foundation Award\, Young Lions Fiction Award\, Bard Fiction Prize\, and John Dos Passos Prize for Literature\, among other honors.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/in-store-lana-lin-the-autobiography-of-h-lan-thao-lam-w-monique-truong/
LOCATION:Books Are Magic Montague\, 122 Montague Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cookbook: Yasmin Khan: Sabzi w/ Sohla El-Waylly
DESCRIPTION:“In the world of food\, Yasmin Khan is a beacon of humanity and light.” —Hetty Lui McKinnon\n\n\nEvent guidelines: \n\nEach ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.\nAdditional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.\nA signing will follow the talk.\nHome address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/Iq1V2RvqpWw\nAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well\, please do not come to the event\, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.\n\nIf you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations\, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net. \nIrresistible vegetarian and vegan recipes inspired by award-winning food writer Yasmin Khan’s travels—and the cooking she does\, at home\, for family and friends. \nLifting its name from the Persian word for “herbs\,” Sabzi is a collection of more than 80 accessible\, plant-forward recipes that celebrate the best of Mediterranean\, Middle Eastern\, and South Asian flavors. \nFrom bountiful salads to fragrant soups\, colorful mezze\, and heart-warming mains\, Yasmin invites home cooks to eat better for the health of people and the planet\, while staying connected to the traditional food cultures that make us who we are. \nYasmin Khan is a food and travel writer\, broadcaster\, and human rights campaigner. She is the author of four cookbooks: Sabzi\, Ripe Figs\, Zaitoun\, and The Saffron Tales. She lives in London. \nSohla El-Waylly is an American chef\, author\, and food media personality who’s debut cookbook became an instant New York Times bestseller\, winning a James Beard Award and two IACP awards. Her career includes notable work with The New York Times\, where she led the Cooking 101 digital series and co-hosted Mystery Menu with her husband and frequent collaborator\, chef and restaurateur Ham El-Waylly. She also hosted the viral digital series Stump Sohla for the Babish Culinary Universe. On the small screen\, Sohla starred in The HISTORY Channel’s Ancient Recipes with Sohla\, and was a judge on the Dan Levy-hosted cooking competition show\, The Big Brunch\, on Max.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/in-store-yasmin-khan-sabzi-w-sohla-el-waylly/
LOCATION:Books Are Magic Montague\, 122 Montague Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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SUMMARY:BFF Night w/ Katie Yee: Maggie; or\, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night celebrating books and besties at Melissa Joy Manning Jewelry! \nJoin us for an evening celebrating books and besties with Katie Yee. Get a signed book\, sip a margarita\, buy some bling! The first 30 people who buy a book bundle ticket will receive a FREE pair of Melissa Joy Manning Hug Earrings! \nProse Hoes subscribers receive 25% off of forever bracelets. \nA Chinese American woman spins tragedy into comedy when her life falls apart in a taut\, wry debut novel that grapples with grief\, motherhood\, and myths—perfect for fans of Joan Is Okay and Crying in H Mart. \nA man and a woman walk into a restaurant. The woman expects a lovely night filled with endless plates of samosas. Instead\, she finds out her husband is having an affair with a woman named Maggie. \nA short while after\, her chest starts to ache. She walks into an examination room\, where she finds out the pain in her breast isn’t just heartbreak—it’s cancer. She decides to call the tumor Maggie. \nUnfolding in fragments over the course of the ensuing months\, Maggie; Or\, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar follows the narrator as she embarks on a journey of grief\, healing\, and reclamation. She starts talking to Maggie (the tumor)\, getting acquainted with her body’s new inhabitant. She overgenerously creates a “Guide to My Husband: A User’s Manual” for Maggie (the other woman)\, hoping to ease the process of discovering her ex-husband’s whims and quirks. She turns her children’s bedtime stories into retellings of Chinese folklore passed down by her own mother\, in an attempt to make them fall in love with their shared culture—and to maybe save herself in the process. \nIn the style of Jenny Offill and the tradition of Nora Ephron’s hilarious and devastating writing on heartbreak and womanhood\, Maggie is a master class in transforming personal tragedy into a form of defiant comedy. \nKatie Yee is a writer from Brooklyn. She has received fellowships from the Center for Fiction\, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, and Kundiman. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, No Tokens\, The Believer\, the Washington Square Review\, Triangle House\, Epiphany\, and Literary Hub. By day\, she works at the Brooklyn Museum. By night\, she writes\, usually under the watch of her judgmental rescue dog\, Ollie.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/bff-night-w-katie-yee-maggie-or-a-man-and-a-woman-walk-into-a-bar/
LOCATION:Melissa Joy Manning\, 211 Court Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person,Shopping
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250716T190000
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SUMMARY:In-Store: Joseph Lee: Nothing More of This Land w/ Leslie Jamison
DESCRIPTION:“A powerful indictment of the colonial mindset that firmly balances an ode to people\, to place\, to remaining.” —Hanif Abdurraqib\n\n\nEvent guidelines: \n\nAll attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face mask at all times.\nTickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store\, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.\nAdditional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.\nA signing will follow the talk.\nHome address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/UCQr53yq3GE\nAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well\, please do not come to the event\, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.\n\nIf you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations\, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net. \nThis event is presented in partnership with the American Indian Community House\, a community-based organization\, mandated to improve the status of Native Americans\, and to foster inter-cultural understanding. \nFrom award-winning journalist Joseph Lee\, a sweeping\, personal exploration of Indigenous identity and the challenges facing Indigenous people around the world. \nBefore Martha’s Vineyard became one of the most iconic vacation destinations in the country\, it was home to the Wampanoag people. Today\, as tourists flock to the idyllic beaches\, the island has become increasingly unaffordable for tribal members\, with nearly three-quarters now living off-island. Growing up Aquinnah Wampanoag\, journalist Joseph Lee grappled with what this situation meant for his tribe\, how the community can continue to grow\, and more broadly\, what it means to be Indigenous. \nIn Nothing More of This Land\, Lee weaves his own story and that of his family into a panoramic narrative of Indigenous life around the world. He takes us from the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard to the icy Alaskan tundra\, the smoky forests of Northern California to the halls of the United Nations\, and beyond. Along the way he meets activists fighting to protect their land\, families clashing with their own tribal leaders\, and communities working to reclaim tradition. \nTogether\, these stories reject stereotypes to show the diversity of Indigenous people today and chart a way past the stubborn legacy of colonialism. \n  \nJoseph Lee is an Aquinnah Wampanoag writer based in New York City. He has an MFA from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at Mercy University. His writing has been published in The Guardian\, BuzzFeed News\, Vox\, Electric Literature\, High Country News\, and more. He was a Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers Workshop and a Senior Indigenous Affairs Fellow at Grist. He has won multiple awards from the Indigenous Journalists Association for environmental coverage\, health coverage\, and beat reporting and this book was awarded a 2024 Silvers Grant for Work in Progress. Follow him on X at @JosephVLee and on Instagram at @Joseph.V.Lee. \nLeslie Jamison is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Splinters\, The Recovering\, and The Empathy Exams; the collection of essays Make It Scream\, Make It Burn\, a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award; and the novel The Gin Closet\, a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. She writes regularly for The New Yorker and her work has appeared in many places including The New York Times\, the Virginia Quarterly Review\, and the New York Review of Books. She teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/in-store-joseph-lee-nothing-more-of-this-land-w-leslie-jamison/
LOCATION:Books Are Magic Montague\, 122 Montague Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Cathy Linh Che: Becoming Ghost with Wo Chan
DESCRIPTION:“Becoming Ghost is an indelible reminder of all the people\, known and unknown\, who loved us enough to survive.” —Kaveh Akbar\n\n\nEvent guidelines: \n\nAll attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face mask at all times.\nTickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store\, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.\nAdditional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.\nA signing will follow the talk.\nHome address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/XvpbMGtD70o\nAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well\, please do not come to the event\, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.\n\nIf you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations\, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net. \nThe long-awaited sophomore poetry collection by award-winning writer Cathy Linh Che\, on familial estrangement\, the Vietnam War\, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. \nThe follow-up to her acclaimed poetry debut Split\, Becoming Ghost documents Cathy Linh Che’s parents’ experiences as refugees who escaped the Vietnam War and then were cast as extras in Francis Ford Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now\, placing them at the margins of their own story. The poetry collection uses persona\, speculation\, and the golden shovel form as a means of moving Vietnamese voices from the periphery to the center. The speaker’s disownment raises questions about the challenges of using parents as poetic subjects\, telling familial stories to a broader public\, and the meaning of forgiveness. \nCathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Split\, winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies\, An Asian American A to Z: A Children’s Guide to Our History\, and Becoming Ghost. Her writing has been published in The New Republic\, The Nation\, and McSweeney’s and she has received awards from MacDowell\, Bread Loaf\, Tin House\, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She currently lives in New York City. \nWo Chan who performs as The Illustrious Pearl is a poet and drag artist. They are a winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and the author of Togetherness (2022). Wo has received fellowships from MacDowell\, New York Foundation of the Arts\, Kundiman\, The Asian American Writers Workshop\, Poets House\, and Lambda Literary. Their poems appear in POETRY\, WUSSY\, Mass Review\, No Tokens\, The Margins\, and elsewhere. As a member of the Brooklyn-based drag/burlesque collective Switch N’ Play\, Wo has performed at venues including The Whitney Museum of American Art\, National Sawdust\, New York Live Arts\, and the Architectural Digest Expo. Find them at @theillustriouspearl. \nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/XvpbMGtD70o
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/in-store-cathy-linh-che-becoming-ghost-w-wo-chan/
LOCATION:Books Are Magic Montague\, 122 Montague Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Hybrid,In Person,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Kevin Nguyen: My Documents w/ Tracy O'Neill
DESCRIPTION:“Mỹ Documents is a moving portrait of the kind of people we become when we are trying to survive.” —Cathy Park Hong\n\n\nEvent guidelines: \n\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/2khVGw43IvE\n\n\nAll attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face mask at all times.\nTickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store\, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.\nAdditional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.\nA signing will follow the talk.\nHome address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.\nAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well\, please do not come to the event\, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.\n\nIf you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations\, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net. \nThe paths of four family members diverge drastically when the U.S. government begins detaining Vietnamese Americans\, in this sharp and touching novel about growing up at the intersection of ambition and assimilation. \nUrsula\, Alvin\, Jen\, and Duncan grew up as cousins in the sprawling Nguyen family\, but the truth about their family is much more complicated. As young adults\, they’re on the precipice of new ventures—Ursula as a budding journalist in Manhattan\, Alvin as an engineering intern for Google\, Jen as a naive freshman at NYU\, and Duncan as a promising newcomer on his high school football team. Their lives are upended when a series of violent\, senseless attacks across America create a national panic\, prompting a government policy forcing Vietnamese Americans into internment camps. Jen and Duncan are sent with their mother to Camp Tacoma while Ursula and Alvin receive exemptions. \nCut off entirely from the outside world\, Jen and Duncan try to withstand long dusty days in camp\, forced to work jobs they hate and acclimate to life without the internet. That is until Jen discovers a way to get messages to the outside. Her first instinct is to reach out to Ursula\, who sees this as an opportunity to tell the world about the horrors of detention—and bolster her own reporting career in the process. \nInformed by real-life events from Japanese incarceration\, the Vietnam War\, and modern-day immigrant detention\, Kevin Nguyen gives us a version of reality only a few degrees away from our own—much too close for comfort. Moving and finely attuned to both the brutalities and mundanities of racism in America\, Mỹ Documents is a strangely funny and touching portrait of American ambition\, fear\, and family. The story of the Nguyens is one of resilience and how we return to each other\, and to ourselves\, after tragedy. \nKevin Nguyen is the author of the novel New Waves. He is the features editor at The Verge\, where he publishes award-winning stories about labor\, business\, and policing\, and was previously a senior editor at GQ. He lives in Brooklyn. \nTracy O’Neill is the author of the memoir Woman of Interest and the novels The Hopeful and Quotients. She was named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree\, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\, and was a Narrative 30 Below finalist. She was also named a Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellow. O’Neill teaches at Vassar College\, and her writing has appeared in Granta\, the New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, the Atlantic\, The New Yorker\, Bookforum\, and other publications.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/in-store-kevin-nguyen-my-documents-w-tracy-oneill/
LOCATION:Books Are Magic Montague\, 122 Montague Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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SUMMARY:In-Store: Storytime w/ Monique Truong & Thai Nguyen: Mai's Áo Dài
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Vietnamese Lunar New Year with this colorful picture book!\n\n\nEvent guidelines: \n\nAll attendees are encouraged to wear face masks at all times.\nRSVP is highly encouraged but not required.\nAdditional copies of the event book will be available for purchase in-store.\nThe reading will be followed by a book signing.\nAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well\, please do not come to the event\, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.\n\nIf you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations\, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net.  \nCelebrity fashion designer Thai Nguyen from Netflix’s Say I Do joins forces with bestselling author Monique Truong and illustrator Dung Ho in this irresistibly charming picture book about embracing your heritage and the traditions that tie generations together—centered around Tet\, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year. \nIt’s the morning of Tet\, and Mai can’t wait to celebrate at her beloved grandmother’s home. With the perfect dress: a poofy\, sparkly Cinderella dress that makes Mai look like the movie star she dreams of being! But when Mai’s father suggests that she wears an áo dài\, a traditional Vietnamese outfit\, to her Ba Noi’s party\, Mai is disappointed. Stars don’t wear áo dài\, she thinks. Then Ba tells her the story of a true star\, her very own Ba Noi\, who sewed beautiful\, highly sought-after áo dài in Vietnam and brought her magic with her when she immigrated to the United States. \nSo maybe stars wear áo dài after all! But how can Ba Noi know what Mai’s wearing when Ba Noi is losing her eyesight? Ba tells her every áo dài is sewn with love\, and the beauty of love is that you don’t need to see it to know it’s here. \nWhen Monique Truong (pronounced Trurn) was six years old\, she came to the United States as a refugee from S. Vietnam. She and her family then lived in North Carolina\, Ohio\, and Texas. She is the bestselling author of The Book of Salt\, which was a New York Times Notable Book\, a PEN/Robert W. Bingham Fellowship winner\, a Stonewall Book Awards – Barbara Gittings Literature Award winner\, among countless others. She is also the author of Bitter in the Mouth\, which received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award\, and The Sweetest Fruits\, named a best fiction of 2019 by Publishers Weekly. Her home is now in Brooklyn\, New York\, where she writes novels and libretti\, always cooks enough to have leftovers\, and takes long afternoon naps. She was also once a lawyer with degrees from Columbia Law School and Yale College. Mai’s Áo Dài is her debut picture book. \nThai Nguyen (pronounced Tie-Win)\, born in My Tho\, learned to sew at the age of nine sitting in on classes at his parents’ sewing school in Saigon\, Vietnam. In 1993\, the family immigrated to the United States\, where Thai is now a fashion designer\, based in Orange County\, California. His designs\, for clients such as Jennifer Lopez\, Ariana Grande\, Kelly Marie Tran\, Ali Wong\, Katherine McPhee\, and Cindy Crawford\, have been featured in top publications and have graced the red carpets of the Met Gala\, the Oscars\, the Grammys\, and film and television premieres. Thai’s love of the áo dài\, this iconic symbol of Vietnam\, has been and will continue to be the wellspring for all his creations. Mai’s Áo Dài is his debut picture book.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/in-store-storytime-w-monique-truong-thai-nguyen-mais-ao-dai/
LOCATION:Books Are Magic Montague\, 122 Montague Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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SUMMARY:In-Store: Albert Abonado: Field Guide for Accidents w/ Jason Koo
DESCRIPTION:“Albert Abonado’s poems open us up to feast and to wonder.” —Chen Chen\, author of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency\n\n\nEvent guidelines: \n\nAll attendees are strongly encouraged to wear a face mask at all times.\nTickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store\, and each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.\nAdditional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.\nA signing will follow the talk.\nHome address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.\nThe event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/oBDtKs7fzS8\nAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well\, please do not come to the event\, even if you have a ticket; email us and we’ll work it out.\n\nIf you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations\, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net. \n \nSELECTED BY MAHOGANY L. BROWNE FOR THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES \nAn irreverent poetry collection that wrestles with questions of family\, mortality\, cultural history\, and identity from the Filipinx-American experience. \nBorn in the United States to Filipino immigrants\, poet Albert Abonado is no stranger to the language of periphery. Neither wholly “American” nor Filipino\, Field Guide for Accidents’s speakers are defined by what they are not: not white enough to be born in America\, not Asian enough to feel at home in the Philippines. Abonado’s poetry illuminates the strange and surreal in domestic routine\, suturing wounds of love\, grief\, and the contradiction of being Filipinx-American\, two identities bound with a hyphen that resists negation. What results is a growing exposure to a world mired in paradox. \nThe poems in Field Guide for Accidents experiment with the constraints of the poetic line\, shaping forms that exhume what tend to haunt us in the silence. In Field Guide for Accidents\, memory becomes augmented with the imaginary; suspicion collides with superstition\, while spirituality crosses paths with scientific fact. A mother returns to her son as a boat. A stew is prepared with blood yet masked as chocolate. The living eat with the dead in memories built like houses. Mythic\, bloodthirsty creatures in Pinoy folklore prey on an exhausted poet. Research conducted in hindsight provides new avenues to explore regret. \nFor many third-culture kids of the Asian-American diaspora\, there is no such thing as a success story for “fitting in.” What matters more is finding where you belong. Spooning images from hand to mouth\, the poems in Field Guide for Accidents struggle with what it means to consume and be consumed by American culture. \n \nAlbert Abonado is the author of Jaw (Sundress Publications). He holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. His writing has appeared in the Boston Review\, Colorado Review\, Poetry Northwest\, The Margins\, Hobart\, Waxwing\, Triquarterly\, and others. Albert currently teaches creative writing at SUNY Geneseo and the Rochester Institute for Technology. He is the former Director of Adult Programs at Writers & Books. \n \nJason Koo is a second-generation Korean American poet\, educator\, editor and nonprofit director. He is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: No Rest\, a winner of the Diode Editions Book Contest\, More Than Mere Light\, America’s Favorite Poem and Man on Extremely Small Island. His work has been published in Best American Poetry 2022\, Missouri Review\, Poetry Northwest\, Village Voice and Yale Review\, among other places\, and won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center and New York State Writers Institute. He is an associate teaching professor of English and the director of creative writing at Quinnipiac University and the founder and executive director of Brooklyn Poets. For his work with Brooklyn Poets\, Koo was named one of the “100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture” by Brooklyn Magazine.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/in-store-albert-abonado-field-guide-for-accidents-w-jason-koo/
LOCATION:Books Are Magic Smith\, 225 Smith Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11231\, United States
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