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SUMMARY:September No/Pen Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join us for No/pen Mic\, hosted by Ed Lin. Sign-ups start from 7:30 PM. Five-minute time slots. All performers welcome!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/september-no-pen-mic/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk | Sunset at Lion Rock by Matthew Wong Foreman
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE BOOK \n\n\n\nNobody in Eric’s family talks about why photos of his Uncle Mikey are on every table\, in every room. Years of silence\, together with a relentless Buddhist upbringing\, has Eric convinced he is Mikey’s reincarnation. But when a summer in the mountain temples of Lion Rock Hill results in a crisis of faith\, Eric is confused by his feelings of betrayal. His growing understanding of his place in Hong Kong society and the circumstances surrounding his uncle’s disappearance compels him to question all that he has come to believe is true. And just like his uncle before him\, Eric finds himself forced to choose between his family and himself. \nSUNSET AT LION ROCK is a letter from a nephew to his uncle who died before he was born. It serves as a window into parts of a Eurasian child’s life which his family can never know\, documenting his attempt to navigate racial confusion\, religious trauma\, the meaning of friendship\, and the struggle for self-discovery in a shifting culture on the eve of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China (PRO). \n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMatthew Wong Foreman is a Hong Kong-born writer. He read history and philosophy in Hong Kong and Oxford before completing a PhD in History at Northwestern University in the United States\, where he taught history and writing. A monograph entitled To Mix or Not to Mix: The Making of the Chinese Race\, 1895-1949\, is forthcoming in 2027 (Brill\, Leiden). He is currently a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong. Sunset at Lion Rock is his debut novel. \nIN CONVERSATION WITH \nSheung-King is a writer from Hong Kong. His second novel\, Batshit Seven\, won the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His debut novel\, You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked\, was a finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Award\, a finalist for the 2021 Canada First Novel Award\, and longlisted for CBC’s Canada Reads 2021. He holds an MFA from The University of Guelph and is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at The University of East Anglia. 
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-talk-sunset-at-lion-rock-by-matthew-wong-foreman/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | Against Tech Oligarchy by JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE BOOK \n\n\n\nAs tech bosses fall in line with the right\, tech workers are fighting back. This is the rousing inside story of their movement—and the way it spawned an anti-worker backlash now reshaping the industry. \nAfter Donald Trump’s election in 2016\, the tech industry sprang into action to oppose his right-wing agenda\, with workers and CEOs alike joining mass mobilizations against the new president’s anti-immigrant policies. But it wasn’t long before the tech bosses started to fall in line with the new administration. \nIn response\, tens of thousands of tech workers protested against their own employers for betraying the progressive values that once defined the industry—including organizing against military contracts\, walking out to protest sexism\, and even launching a wave of union drives. By the early 2020s\, these workers had sparked what observers were calling the tech worker movement\, one that seemed capable of checking the industry’s reckless growth and reactionary drift. \nBut as their struggle grew\, so did the employers’ backlash. A new class consciousness took root among tech’s billionaire owners. Hell-bent on stamping out any and all dissent\, tech executives embraced Trumpism\, fired organizers\, and began lashing out against the “woke” ideology they blamed for turning their once loyal employees against them—and replacing the good tech jobs of the 2010s with incessant layoffs\, grind culture\, and a management style that treats workers as disposable. \nAGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY provides a gripping account of this inspiring workers’ movement and the rise of the hostile labor politics that define Silicon Valley today. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nJS Tan is getting his PhD at MIT and formerly worked in tech\, where he spent years organizing across the industry. His work has been featured in The New York Times\, MIT Technology Review\, Dissent\, Jacobin\, Foreign Policy\, The Baffler\, and The Guardian\, among other outlets. More of his work can be found here. \nClarissa Redwine helped organize the Kickstarter union\, and has since dedicated herself to organizing the industry. She cofounded and runs the annual tech organizing conference Circuit Breakers. Her organizing work has been featured in The New York Times\, the BBC\, The Guardian\, The Verge\, TechCrunch\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-launch-against-tech-oligarchy-by-js-tan-and-clarissa-redwine/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260913T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260913T130000
DTSTAMP:20260903T005353Z
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SUMMARY:Meet & Greet | Gordon & Li Li Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE BOOK \nCelebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with the newest Gordon & Li Li bilingual book\, Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival! From the legendary story of Hòu Yì\, Cháng’é\, and the Jade Rabbit to the traditions families enjoy today\, discover new words in Mandarin and English while celebrating family\, the harvest\, and togetherness. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMichele Wong McSween is the creator\, author\, and founder of Gordon & Li Li\, the first Mandarin-English bilingual children’s brand introducing families to Mandarin language and Chinese culture. Inspired by her own journey as a mother\, Michele creates books and educational experiences that make language learning approachable\, joyful\, and accessible for everyone.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/meet-greet-gordon-li-li-celebrate-mid-autumn-festival/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T200000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | To the Tune by Jee Leong Koh
DESCRIPTION:In To the Tune\, Jee Leong Koh asks Du Fu how poetry can take to the barricades\, discovering bracing answers from ordinary citizens\, media workers\, political organizers\, and protest songwriters. \nKoh’s new book juxtaposes a series of searching epistolary poems and a collection of poem-songs that forcibly and tentatively lurch into existence\, take on misguided titles\, and beg for music to set them chanting and marching. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJee Leong Koh is the author of STEEP TEA (Carcanet)\, named a Best Book of the Year by UK’s Financial Times and a Finalist by Lambda Literary in the USA. His hybrid work of fiction\, SNOW AT 5 PM: TRANSLATIONS OF AN INSIGNIFICANT JAPANESE POET\, won the Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction. Originally from Singapore\, Koh lives in New York City\, where he heads the literary non-profit Singapore Unbound. He is also the Poetry Editor of the Evergreen Review. \nIN CONVERSATION WITH \nJerrold Yam is a corporate lawyer and the author of three collections\, most recently Intruder (Ethos Books). His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner\, Third Coast\, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Washington Square Review. In 2024\, he won the Cheltenham Poetry Prize and was a 2024 Writer-in-Residence at the UK’s National Centre for Writing. \nBrad Vogel is author of the poetry collections FIND ME IN THE FERAL POCKETS and BROAD MEADOW BIRD. His poetry has been set to music by multiple composers. Brad founded & coordinates NYC Poets Afloat\, an annual residency & reading series aboard ships in New York Harbor\, as well as the annual Gowanus Dawn Reading\, part of the Brooklyn Book Festival (10th annual performance on September 25th!). He leads programs at Brooklyn Museum\, NYU\, & Center for Fiction. Brad also serves on the Walt Whitman Initiative board and as the Director of Special Projects at Judgy Baby\, a new creative hub in Gowanus.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-launch-to-the-tune-by-jee-leong-koh/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | The Chinese Lady by Bo Wang
DESCRIPTION:Pre-purchase your copy of the featured title to guarantee your signed copy! This helps ensure that everyone who wants a book goes home with one\, in case we sell out at the event.\n\nABOUT THE BOOK \n\n\n\n\n\nBo Wang’s gorgeous and immersive debut historical novel immortalizes the life of the first Chinese woman to be brought to the United States in the 1800s. \nLittle Sparrow\, Julia\, Afong Moy\, Madame Moy\, The Chinese Lady\, were her many names . . . but her true name has been lost to time. \nIn 1834 Afong Moy was brought to New York by two merchants as a live exhibit. Rising to fame as the first Chinese female in the United States\, she became an oddity among curios as Americans marveled at the opportunity to observe her astonishing little feet\, broken and bound to resemble lotuses. \nAs the story moves from 1820s Canton to P.T. Barnum’s American Museum\, to Gold Rush San Francisco\, three women introduce us to her many names. Her mother calls her Little Sparrow and sells her to a captain who sails her to New York. The captain’s wife names her Julia and “graciously” treats her as her own. And when she is shunted off to P.T Barnum\, her fellow human exhibitions call her China. Eventually arriving in San Francisco’s Chinatown\, she will at long last claim her name and her own story. \nCombining archival research and brilliantly imaginative storytelling\, Bo Wang masterfully fills in history’s gaps to weave a powerful narrative of survival in the face of hardship\, tragedy\, and betrayal. Told through the eyes of those around her; mirroring her life as an object on display\, until we finally see the world through her own eyes. \n\n\n\n\n\n ABOUT THE AUTHOR \nBo Wang was born in Cincinnati to Taiwanese American parents. Her childhood was peppered with stories of the Monkey King alongside those of Frog and Toad. A graduate of Sycamore Public Schools\, Bo holds an A.B. in history and literature from Harvard College. She now lives in Boston with her family. The Chinese Lady is her debut novel. \nIN CONVERSATION WITH \nAlice Evelyn Yang is a Chinese American writer from Norfolk\, Virginia. Her debut novel\, A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing\, was selected by booksellers as an Indie Next and Indies Introduce pick and longlisted for the Women’s Prize. She is the recipient of the 2023 Jesmyn Ward Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review\, and her work has been published in MQR\, The Rumpus\, and the Asian American Writers Workshop’s The Margins\, among others. She earned her MFA from Columbia University. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-launch-the-chinese-lady-by-bo-wang/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T200000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | All Our Evenings by Ruthvika Rao
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE BOOK \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom the author of the acclaimed novel The Fertile Earth comes a powerful tale of desire\, friendship\, and rivalry between three inseparable friends over the course of an unforgettable summer. \n  \n\n\nIn 1990s Hyderabad\, three teenagers—Arjun\, Ruhee\, and Ganesh—forge an unexpected bond. Over the course of a single sun-drenched summer\, they discover love\, friendship\, and solace from their troubled families. They also discover the Red House\, an abandoned house in their neighborhood\, which becomes the site of their intimate friendship. But one night at the Red House\, an unexpected act of violence shatters their lives forever. \nA decade later\, Ruhee returns to Hyderabad\, and Arjun\, who has never forgotten his first love\, is given a chance to tell the truth\, both to himself and to those around him. But the tangled threads of fate\, class\, and desire remain\, as does a lacerating secret. \nBy turns tender and unsettling\, Ruthvika Rao’s All Our Evenings is a deeply affecting novel about youthful passion\, redemption\, and the people we can never let go. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nRuthvika Rao is from Hyderabad\, India. Her debut novel\, The Fertile Earth\, was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\, the Chautauqua Prize\, the Crossword Book Award\, and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. She has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa and the University of Toronto. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Michigan. \nIN CONVERSATION WITH \nAube Rey Lescure is a French-Chinese-American author and Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine Off Assignment. Her debut novel\, River East\, River West\, was shortlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction\, the Carol Shields Prize\, the Massachusetts Book Award\, and the Maya Angelou Book Award\, among others. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Granta\, Guernica\, LitHub\, Electric Literature\, and more. Her essay “At the Bend of the Road” was selected for Best American Essays 2022.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-launch-all-our-evenings-by-ruthvika-rao/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260831T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260831T210000
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SUMMARY:Art Analysis Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Lucy Yu and Brittany Pham\nA workshop for all levels!\nJoin us for an Art Analysis Writing Workshop where we’ll be analyzing short stories\, poetry\, and visual art. In this encouraging space\, we are cultivating an inviting environment for you to hone in on your own unique voice. \n\nABOUT THE HOSTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLucy Yu is a writer and multi-disciplinary artist living in Brooklyn\, New York. She is also the owner of Yu & Me Books in Manhattan’s Chinatown\, the first queer Asian American bookstore in New York City. Yu & Me Books specializes in immigrant stories\, writers of color\, and historically marginalized experiences.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrittany Pham is the book club co-host at Yu & Me Books. She’s also an active member of the Instagram book community (“Bookstagram”) and can be found @scienceowlreads.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/art-analysis-writing-workshop/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Writing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk | Eating the Whole Fish by Zoe Lee and Annie Chen
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE BOOK \nA seafood anthology on coastal culture\, ocean health\, and whole fish cooking. \nFrom BEAM Studio\, in collaboration with nonprofit Eating with the Ecosystem\, EATING THE WHOLE FISH is a 200-page exploration of sustainable seafood systems through recipes\, interviews\, photography\, essays\, and cultural stories. It began with the simple idea that eating local species requires (predominantly white) New England communities to learn to eat the fish whole. This idea grew into a project exploring care\, cross-cultural dialogue\, food culture\, and the people working to build better relationships with our oceans. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nBEAM is a next-generation studio shaping the public life of emerging science. \nFounded by Annie Chen and Zoe Lee\, BEAM partners with climate tech innovators\, scientists\, policymakers\, and local communities to shape how new ideas move beyond the lab and into the world. Through research\, design\, systems thinking\, and new media storytelling\, BEAM builds worlds people can step into—where new technologies can be encountered\, understood\, and stewarded forward at scale. \nDrawing from their backgrounds in biology\, behavioral decision sciences\, and design\, the duo brings interdisciplinary fluency and sociotechnical expertise to collaborations that span ocean restoration\, biotechnology\, astrobiology\, and climate governance. Their ultimate mission: to align scientific possibility with collective life. \nTheir work has been supported by NASA\, NOAA\, MIT Media Lab\, EY Intelligent Realities Lab\, Science History Institute\, MacDowell\, NYFA\, Interlace Fund\, and more. They are Research Affiliates at the MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative and in the Year 12 Creative Science track of NEW INC.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-talk-eating-the-whole-fish-by-zoe-lee-and-annie-chen/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260820T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260820T200000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk | Nice Places by Vincent Chu
DESCRIPTION:Pre-purchase your copy of the featured title to guarantee your signed copy! This helps ensure that everyone who wants a book goes home with one\, in case we sell out at the event.\n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nPhilosophical\, tender\, and hilariously observed\, NICE PLACES subverts the “go find yourself” travel story\, unpacking our shared desire for meaning\, connection\, and a true place in the world. \nWhen Georgie quits his job at Oats Technologies to travel the world for one year\, he hopes to escape the daily existential discomfort of corporate life. But after a meditation guru robs him on his way to the airport\, he awakens in a guest house in the rundown yet vibrant Panhandle neighborhood of his own city. \nAlone with his phone and a desperate urge to assure his friends and family all is well\, Georgie shares a photo of “authentic” boat noodles. To his surprise\, everyone loves the post and believes he is overseas. Ant\, a mixed media artist from Berlin\, proposes a collaboration. With her vision and the help of a charming cast of guests and locals\, Georgie’s unlikely adventures unravel in ways he never imagined. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nVincent Chu is author of the debut novel Nice Places (Forest Avenue Press\, 2026) and story collection Like a Champion (7.13 Books\, 2018). His fiction has appeared in Muumuu House\, STILL Magazine\, Pithead Chapel\, PANK Magazine and elsewhere. Vincent is a Hambidge Fellow\, former Headlands Center for the Arts Affiliate Artist\, and Pushcart Prize nominee. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from UCLA. Vincent lives in Oakland\, California. \nIN CONVERSATION WITH \nEd Lin\, a native New Yorker of Taiwanese and Chinese descent\, is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards. His new book\, The Dead Can’t Make a Living\, is the latest in the Taipei Night Market mystery series published by Soho Crime. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife\, actress Cindy Cheung\, and son.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-talk-nice-places-by-vincent-chu/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T210000
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SUMMARY:Taiwanese Vinyl Listening Party + Pop Up
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a listening party and vinyl pop-up featuring SDM-001 – the brand-new 10″ vinyl release by Vicki Huang\, vintage Taiwanese selects\, and cuts from Taiwanese Waves artists gearing up for their 10th Anniversary SummerStage show!
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/taiwanese-vinyl-listening-party-pop-up/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260806T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260806T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk | The Hyphenated Life by Dr Han Ren
DESCRIPTION:For readers of Permission to Come Home\, Minor Feelings\, and Pleasure Activism\, an insightful guide for “hyphenates” seeking to better understand themselves and help others understand them\, too. \nWhat does it mean to live a hyphenated life? \nSo many folks are forced to toggle across the multiple layers of who they are\, and across the diverse spaces they occupy. They may be children of immigrants\, 1.5 gen\, of color; they may be disabled\, neurodivergent\, or queer. Regardless of how they identify\, they exist in an in-between space while also trying to fit into the dominant culture. With a foot in multiple worlds\, belonging fully to none\, it can be hard to figure out where they fit in. \nDr. Han Ren\, licensed psychologist and a hyphenate herself\, seeks to offer solutions for those with intersectional identities to fully express who they are in any and every environment. The Hyphenated Life is an intersectional\, inside out excavation of how existing in marginalized bodies affects the ways folks show up in dominant culture and predominantly white spaces. \nOffering tools\, stories\, conversations\, solutions and insights\, this book will resonate with anyone who is navigating the intricacies of their multicultural identity development. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nHan Ren\, PhD\, is a hyphenated professional: licensed clinical and school psychologist\, speaker\, educator\, and content creator. She is also a 1.5-generation Chinese-American immigrant\, neurodivergent mind\, mother\, partner\, and only child. Dr. Ren holds a doctorate in Child Clinical and School Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin\, a Master of Education in Special Education from the University of Houston\, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Michigan. She was an adjunct professor at UT Austin and a former pre-K special educator. Han lives in Austin\, Texas\, where she co-leads Pivot Psychology Austin\, a group private practice. \nIN CONVERSATION WITH \nKimmy Wu\, MHC\, MA is a NYC-based psychotherapist\, writer\, and founder whose work lives in the hyphenated spaces—between cultures\, identities\, and ways of belonging. Born and raised in Taiwan\, and now rooted in New York City\, she brings an embodied understanding of what it means to hold multiple worlds at once without dissolving the tension between them. Her clinical practice centers on narrative\, relational\, and anti-oppressive frameworks\, with a particular focus on intimacy\, identity\, and the slow work of reclaiming wholeness across fractured contexts. She writes about these themes on her Substack\, Between Living & Dreaming\, and is the founder of Thirdspace\, a relational technology company dedicated to exploring the depth possible in close relationships. She comes to The Hyphenated Life not just as a clinician\, but as someone who has lived the intersections the book highlights—and has spent years helping others find language for it.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-talk-the-hyphenated-life-by-dr-han-ren/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person,Mental Health
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Unfinished Business by Clare Osongco
DESCRIPTION:In this funny\, warmly chaotic novel\, a floundering office worker discovers her mother’s ghost is trapped in the company Slack server\, and must free her by resolving her own troubled love life. \nA few months ago\, Ruby Ocampo’s mother\, Adela\, died at her desk at work. Now\, lost and driven by a misplaced sense of obligation\, Ruby’s taken a job at the megacorporation where Adela worked for decades—and\, to her horror\, she discovers her mother’s ghost is trapped in the company Slack. \nRuby has never lived up to her mother’s expectations in life\, but to set her free\, she’ll have to resolve Adela’s unfinished business. She makes a list of all the ways she could live more like her mother would have wanted\, covering everything from her stunted career to her love life (#5 on the list: date someone in a higher tax bracket!). Soon her quest to free Adela gets Ruby entangled with two men at the office who might be able to help: the estranged childhood friend her mom never approved of—who’s the only one she can confide in about this supernatural crisis—and the hot but vaguely sinister junior executive who’s been paying her a confusing amount of attention. \nIn order to give her mom a chance at the afterlife\, Ruby must address her shortcomings one by one—and reevaluate her inherited ideas about love\, work\, and what’s truly important along the way. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHORS\n\n\n\n\nClare Osongco is a mixed Filipino American author living in Los Angeles who likes to write about falling in love\, messy family relationships\, and ghosts. She is also the author of the young adult romance Midnights With You.\n\n\n\n\n\nIN CONVERSATION WITH\n\nLauren Kung Jessen is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Lunar Love\, Red String Theory\, Yin Yang Love Song\, The Fortune Flip\, and The Santa Claus Con. Her rom-coms are filled with big feelings and lots of food. She writes the Substack “Important Nothings” and lives in New York City.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-launch-unfinished-business-by-clare-osongco/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | Sisters of a Halved Heart by Nayantara Roy with Dani Shapiro
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE BOOK \nThe electric story of two sisters and an unthinkable betrayal. \nMira Guhathakurta is a poetry editor at a distinguished literary magazine in New York\, a dream job that has given her nearly everything she’s always wanted. And then she reconnects with Jack from college—kind\, funny\, intelligent Jack—and suddenly Mira feels as if she might have found her soulmate. They’ve woven their lives together so thoroughly; all that remains is for Jack to meet her family: her beloved father and dear sister Joy. But when Joy commits an unthinkable act of betrayal\, the sisters are impossibly fractured and their father’s heart is broken. As the sisters navigate their tumultuous relationship and Mira starts over\, it turns out that Joy isn’t the only one who has been—or continues to be—dishonest. \nIn a propulsive story of love and passion and the ultimate pull of family\, Sisters of a Halved Heart examines the lengths we will go to in order to make our own narratives of love work out\, the lies we tell ourselves\, and the ways in which the truth\, often right in front of you\, can be impossible to see.\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR\n\n\n\n\nNayantara Roy’s debut novel\, The Magnificent Ruins\, was a New York Times Editor’s Choice novel of 2024\, an LA Times Editor’s Pick\, a Washington Post Best Book\, a People Magazine Best Book and an Apple best debut among others. The book is currently being adapted for television.  In 2018\, Roy won the Rick DeMarinis Short Story Prize for her short story\, “8C.” Her plays have been performed internationally\, in the UK and India. By day\, she is the Senior Vice President of Television at Sandbox Entertainment where she acquires and develops original scripted series. She was born in Kolkata and now lives in Los Angeles.\n\n\n\n\n\nIN CONVERSATION WITH\n\nDani Shapiro is the author of eleven books\, and the host and creator of the hit podcast Family Secrets. Her most recent novel\, Signal Fires\, was named a best book of 2022 by NPR\, Time Magazine\, Washington Post\, Amazon\, and others\, and was a national bestseller. Her most recent memoir\, Inheritance\, was an instant New York Times Bestseller\, and named a best book of 2019 by Elle\, Vanity Fair\, Wired\, and Real Simple. Both Signal Fires and Inheritance were winners of the National Jewish Book Award. Dani’s work has been published in fourteen languages and she’s currently developing Signal Fires and Inheritance for feature film adaptation. Dani’s book on the process and craft of writing\, Still Writing\, was recently reissued on the occasion of its tenth anniversary. She occasionally teaches workshops and retreats\, and is the co-founder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano\, Italy.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-launch-sisters-of-a-halved-heart-by-nayantara-roy-with-dani-shapiro/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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SUMMARY:Art Analysis Writing Workshop June '26
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Art Analysis Writing Workshop where we’ll be analyzing short stories\, poetry\, and visual art. In this encouraging space\, we are cultivating an inviting environment for you to hone in on your own unique voice.\n\nABOUT THE HOSTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLucy Yu is a writer and multi-disciplinary artist living in Brooklyn\, New York. She is also the owner of Yu & Me Books in Manhattan’s Chinatown\, the first queer Asian American bookstore in New York City. Yu & Me Books specializes in immigrant stories\, writers of color\, and historically marginalized experiences.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrittany Pham is the book club co-host at Yu & Me Books. She’s also an active member of the Instagram book community (“Bookstagram”) and can be found @scienceowlreads.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/art-analysis-writing-workshop-june-26/
LOCATION:Yu and Me Books\, 44 Mulberry St.\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person,Workshop,Writing
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SUMMARY:Book Launch Party | Water Mirror Echo by Jeff Chang in Conversation with Hua Hsu and Chinatown Records
DESCRIPTION:A cultural biography\, both sweeping and intimate\, of the legend Bruce Lee\, set against the extraordinary\, untold story of the rise of Asian America—from the author of the award-winning classic Can’t Stop Won’t Stop and one of the finest culture observers of our era. \nJeff Chang’s first book\, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation\, was named one of the best American nonfiction books of the last quarter century. He has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature and\, among numerous other honors\, has won the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award. Chang has written three other acclaimed bestsellers on American history and culture\, music\, and the arts. In May 2019\, he and director Bao Nguyen created a four-episode digital series adaptation of his award-winning book We Gon’ Be Alright for PBS Indie Lens Storycast. Chang was featured in Nguyen’s ESPN Bruce Lee documentary\, Be Water; the PBS series\, Asian Americans; and Lisa Ling’s CNN series\, This Is Life. \nIN CONVERSATION WITH \nHua Hsu is the Pulitzer Prize winner of Stay True and a staff writer at The New Yorker and a professor of Literature at Bard College. Hsu serves on the executive board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. He was formerly a fellow at the New America Foundation and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York with his family. \nWITH A DJ SET BY  \nChinatown Records 華埠錄音 is a homegrown community effort to celebrate the sonic tapestry of music\, memory\, & history that comes with inherited family collections. Homebased in NYC’s Manhattan Chinatown\, DJ historian yiuyiu 瑶瑶 takes on her childhood name to care for & activate the Chinatown Records archive of over 30 record/CD/tape collections inherited from her family & neighbors. As a community-taught & -powered DJ historian\, yiuyiu 瑶瑶 has the most fun playing golden records at senior centers\, leading karaoke dance floors on the streets of Chinatown\, & training up our next generations of DJ historians of all ages through sonic histories\, listening sessions\, & oral history workshops. With each beloved song & memory\, Chinatown Records 華埠錄音 evolves as an ever-growing record of the people we love\, who bring all this music to life with us.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-launch-party-water-mirror-echo-by-jeff-chang-in-conversation-with-hua-hsu-and-chinatown-records/
LOCATION:New Design High School\, 350 Grand Street\, 6th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Where are You Really From by Elaine Hsieh Chou
DESCRIPTION:For this Book Club discussion with the author\, we’ll be discussing Background: A Short Story. Read it first here! \n\nFrom the critically-acclaimed author of Disorientation\, a multi-genre story collection that \n\nexplores the limits and possibilities of storytelling. \nA mail order bride from Taiwan is packed up in a cardboard box and sent via express shipping to California\, where her much older husband awaits her. Two teenage girls meticulously plan how to kill and cook their downstairs neighbor. An American au pair moves to Paris to find herself\, only to find her actual French doppelgänger. A father reunites with his estranged daughter in unusual circumstances: as a background actor on the set of her film. And in “Casualties of Art\,” a writer’s affair with a married artist tests the line between fact and fiction\, self-victimization and the victimization of others. \nIn these six singular stories and a novella that pivot from the terrible to the beautiful to the surreal\, Elaine Hsieh Chou confronts the slipperiness of truth in storytelling. With razor-sharp precision and psychological acuity\, she peels back the tales we tell ourselves to peer beneath them: at our treacherous desires\, our self-deceptions and our capacity for cruelty\, both to ourselves and each other. Expansive and provocative\, Where Are You Really From is a visionary achievement. \n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR\n\n\nElaine Hsieh Chou is a Taiwanese American author and screenwriter from California. Described as “the funniest\, most poignant novel of the year” by Vogue\, her debut novel Disorientation was a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book\, New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award finalist and Thurber Prize finalist. A former Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow at New York University\, her Pushcart Award–winning short fiction appears in Guernica\, Black Warrior Review\, Tin House Online\, Ploughshares and The Atlantic\, while her essays appear in The Cut and Vanity Fair. She is a Fred R. Brown Literary Award recipient\, a Sundance Episodic Lab Fellow and a Gotham Series Creator to Watch. Her work has been supported by the Harry Ransom Center\, the New York Foundation for the Arts and Hedgebrook’s Writers-in-Residence Program.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-talk-where-are-you-really-from-by-elaine-hsieh-chou/
LOCATION:Yu & Me Books\, 44 Mulberry Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The L.O.V.E Club by Lio Min
DESCRIPTION:From the acclaimed author of Beating Heart Baby\, an immersive novel following three estranged high schoolers who are pulled into a video game to pursue the disappearance of their friend\n \nThree years ago\, Elle (the “E” in the self-proclaimed L.O.V.E. Club) disappeared from Calendula\, an affluent Chinese American suburb in inland California. Soon afterward\, Liberty and Vera (“L” and “V”) moved away\, leaving O alone with her grief\, abandonment\, and confusion. . . until Liberty and Vera return for their senior year of high school. \nThough the L.O.V.E. Club’s three remaining members once bonded as outcasts and gamers\, they can’t pick up the pieces of their friendship. But the girls are drawn back to their old clubhouse\, where they discover\, loaded for them to play\, a new game created by none other than the missing Elle. \nOne click\, and Liberty\, Vera\, and O are ported into Morning Glory\, an ever-evolving botanical fantasy coded with their lived experiences\, complicated history\, and repressed insecurities. Unbeknownst to the others\, O can’t remember the events surrounding Elle’s disappearance—but within the game\, Elle has sent O a cryptic hint about Morning Glory’s real nature. \nWhile Liberty and Vera defeat increasingly sinister bosses\, O grapples with the secret knowledge that her deepest wish\, to reunite with Elle\, might just come true. But as the girls progress through Morning Glory\, O begins to wonder how well she actually knew any of her former best friends and if she’s ready to confront the hard truths—and dangerous revelations—about Elle in her returning memories. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nLio Min is the acclaimed author of Beating Heart Baby\, a long-time music reporter\, and a fullmetal optimist. They live in Oakland\, California\, and write toward the future. \nIN CONVERSATION WITH \nKazimir Lee has lived for almost equal amounts of time in Malaysia\, the UK\, and the US. They have been published by the Slate\, the Nib\, OJST and NY Mag. Their work has won a Lambda and an Ignatz. Their first solo YA graphic novel\, Low Orbit\, is now available from Top Shelf. They now reside in Brooklyn with all the other freaks. Kazimir enjoys queer subtext\, parenthood\, ghost stories\, and karaoke.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/13687/
LOCATION:Yu & Me Books\, 44 Mulberry Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | Maggie by Katie Yee
DESCRIPTION:This event will take place in person at Chatham Square Library. \nPlease join author Katie Yee as we discuss her debut novel Maggie; or\, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar: A Novel. Booksigning to follow Q&A. \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. \nThis event is produced in collaboration with our community partners Yu & Me Books and Asian American Writers’ Workshop. \nRSVP
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-launch-maggie-by-katie-yee/
LOCATION:Chatham Square Library – NYPL\, 33 East Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10002
CATEGORIES:Book
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Friendship as Creative Act with Stephanie Niu and Juliana Chang
DESCRIPTION:Can friendship be a creative act? In this book talk\, debut poets (and college roommates!) Juliana Chang and Stephanie Niu will discuss their publication journeys and explore the myriad of ways their writing has been intertwined with and influenced by friendship. Juliana and Stephanie will read from their debut collections\, So Long This Wound Stayed Open and I Would Define the Sun\, and discuss the ways friendship has shaped these works\, whether editorially or emotionally\, in order to ask: how can we make space for friendship in the creative process? What do we gain when creativity and community flourish together? \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nStephanie Niu is a poet and writer from Marietta\, Georgia. She is the author of I Would Define the Sun\, which won the inaugural Vanderbilt University Literary Prize\, and chapbooks Survived By (Host Publications\, 2024) and She Has Dreamt Again of Water (Diode Editions\, 2022). Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review\, The Missouri Review\, Literary Hub\, Copper Nickel\, Ecotone\, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJuliana Chang is a Taiwanese American poet. Her first full-length collection\, So Long This Wound Stayed Open\, was published with ELJ Editions in 2024. Juliana’s work appears in The American Poetry Review\, The Chestnut Review\, diode poetry journal\, Burningword Literary Magazine\, Best New Poets 2023\, and elsewhere. She holds a BA in Linguistics and an MA in Sociology from Stanford University\, and a JD from Harvard Law School.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-talk-friendship-as-creative-act-with-stephanie-niu-and-juliana-chang/
LOCATION:Yu & Me Books\, 44 Mulberry Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Boat Baby by Vicky Nguyen with Hoda Kotb
DESCRIPTION:In a memoir where heroism meets humor\, NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen tells the story of her family’s daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to reporter with laughter and fierce love. \nStarting in 1975\, Vietnam’s “boat people”—desperate families seeking freedom—fled the Communist government and violence in their country any way they could\, usually by boat across the South China Sea. Vicky Nguyen and her family were among them. Attacked at sea by pirates before reaching a refugee camp in Malaysia\, Vicky’s family survived on rations and waited months until they were sponsored to go to America. \nBut deciding to leave and start a new life in a new country is half the story…figuring out how to be American is the other. Boat Baby is Vicky’s memoir of growing up in America with unconventional Vietnamese parents who didn’t always know how to bridge the cultural gaps. It’s a childhood filled with misadventures and misunderstandings\, from almost stabbing the neighborhood racist with a butter knife to getting caught stealing Cosmo in the hope of learning Do You Really Think You Know Everything About Sex? \nVicky’s parents approached life with the attitude\, “Why not us?” In the face of prejudice\, they taught her to be gritty and resilient\, skills Vicky used as she combatted stereotyping throughout her career\, fending off the question “Aren’t you Connie Chung?” to become a leading Asian American journalist on television. She delivers a uniquely transparent account of her life\, revealing how she negotiated her salary in a competitive industry\, the challenges of starting a family\, and the struggle to be a dutiful daughter. \nFunny\, nostalgic\, and poignant\, Boat Baby is a testament to the messy glue that bonds a family. In the tradition of We Are Dreamers by Simu Liu and Dear Girls by Ali Wong\, Vicky Nguyen offers an optimistic story full of heart that illuminates the promise of what America can be.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/book-launch-boat-baby-by-vicky-nguyen-with-hoda-kotb/
LOCATION:New Design High School Library\, 350 Grand Street\, Library (4th Floor)\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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SUMMARY:DOGEATERS by Jessica Hagedorn w/ Patrick Rosal & Lucy Yu
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the Penguin Classics launch of DOGEATERS with a conversation featuring Jessica Hagedorn\, Patrick Rosal & Lucy Yu!\n\n\nABOUT DOGEATERS \n“An original\, raw\, and wild novel that has held its power and demands to be read.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer \nWelcome to Manila in the turbulent period of the Philippines’ late dictator. It is a world in which American pop culture and local Filipino tradition mix flamboyantly\, and gossip\, storytelling\, and extravagant behavior thrive. \nA wildly disparate group of characters—including movie stars and waiters\, a young junkie and the richest man in the Philippines—becomes ensnared in a spiral of events culminating in a beauty pageant\, a film festival\, and an assassination. At the center of this maelstrom is Rio\, a feisty schoolgirl who will grow up to live in America and look back with longing on the land of her youth. \nJessica Hagedorn is the author of the novels Dogeaters and The Gangster of Love\, Dream Jungle\, and a collection of poetry and short fiction\, Danger and Beauty. \nPatrick Rosal is an interdisciplinary artist and author of four previous books\, most recently Brooklyn Antediluvian\, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award. He earned fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Fulbright Senior Research Program. He is Professor of English and inaugural Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers-Camden. \nLucy Yu is the owner of Yu & Me Books\, the first female Asian American-owned bookstore in Chinatown\, Manhattan. She loves reading\, running\, and resting.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/dogeaters-by-jessica-hagedorn-w-patrick-rosal-lucy-yu/
LOCATION:New Design High School Library\, 350 Grand Street\, Library (4th Floor)\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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SUMMARY:Midnight Release Party: The City and Its Uncertain Walls
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the midnight release of Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls! Featuring games\, prizes\, tea from Kettl Tea\, sake from Kato Sake works\, Milk Bar muffins (“Murakuffins”) inspired by the book\, and more! Be the first to receive your copy right at midnight! \nABOUT THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS \nFrom the bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story\, a quest\, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them\, and a parable for our peculiar times. \nWe begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl\, teenagers in love. One day\, she disappears . . . and her absence haunts him for the rest of his life. \nThus begins a search for this lost love that takes the man into middle age and on a journey between the real world and an other world – a mysterious\, perhaps imaginary\, walled town where unicorns roam\, where a Gatekeeper determines who can enter and who must remain behind\, and where shadows become untethered from their selves. Listening to his own dreams and premonitions\, the man leaves his life in Tokyo behind and ventures to a small mountain town\, where he becomes the head librarian\, only to learn the mysterious circumstances surrounding the gentleman who had the job before him. As the seasons pass and the man grows more uncertain about the porous boundaries between these two worlds\, he meets a strange young boy who helps him to see what he’s been missing all along. \nThe City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature’s most important writers.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/midnight-release-party-the-city-and-its-uncertain-walls/
LOCATION:Yu & Me Books\, 44 Mulberry Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,In Person
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SUMMARY:I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying by Youngmi Mayer w/ John deBary
DESCRIPTION:Join Youngmi Mayer and John deBary for a conversation celebrating the launch of I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying!\n\n\nPlease note that attendees who purchase their book ahead of time (in the ticketing options) will receive priority in the signing line after the book talk\, and will have their books signed first!\nUpon arrival\, you will check in with a staff member and receive your number in the signing line.\n\nBooks will also be available for sale at the event itself\, until sold out. \n \nCan’t make it? Pre-order your signed copy here. \n \nPlease also consider making a donation with your RSVP! Donations go to Seward Park Campus Library (@SparkCampusLibrary)\, a proud NYC Public School high school library. Our library serves the five high schools in the building\, and in partnership with New Design High School\, we have been able to build a podcast/music recording studio to help students build 21st century skills. To that end\, we are in the process of building MarkerSpark – a creative Makerspace focused on 3D engineering and design. Your donations are crucial to making this happen. Help us build out the vision of next year’s leaders. \n \nABOUT THE BOOK \nFrom standup comedian Youngmi Mayer\, an unforgettable memoir written with “raw\, enviable freedom that simply floors you\,” interrogating whiteness\, gender\, and sexuality in America\, navigating a tumultuous childhood in Korea and Saipan\, and coming to terms with her parents’ shortcomings (Michelle Zauner). \n“Do you know what happens if you laugh while crying? Hair grows out of your butthole.” It was a constant truism Youngmi Mayer’s mother would say threateningly after she would make her daughter laugh while crying. Her mother used it to cheer her up in moments when she could tell Youngmi was overtaken with grief. The humorous saying would never fail to lighten the mood\, causing both daughter and mother to laugh and cry at the same time. Her mother had learned this trick from her mother\, and her mother had learned this from her mother before her: it had also helped an endless string of her family laugh through suffering. \n \nIn I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying\, Youngmi jokes through the retelling of her childhood as an offbeat biracial kid in Saipan\, a place next to a place that Americans might know. She jokes through her difficult adolescence where she must parent her own parents: a mother who married her husband because he looked like white Jesus (and the singer of The Bee Gees). And with humor and irreverence and full-throated openness\, she jokes even while sharing the story of what her family went through during the last century of colonialism and war in Korea\, while reflecting how years later\, their wounds affect her in New York City as a single mom\, all the while interrogating whiteness\, gender\, and sexuality. \n \nYoungmi jokes through these stories in hopes of passing onto the reader what her family passed down to her: The gift of laughing while crying. The gift of a hairy butthole. Because throughout it all\, the one thing she learned was one cannot exist without the other. And like a yin and yang\, this duality is reflected in this whip-smart\, heart-wrenching\, and disarmingly funny memoir told by a bright new voice with so much heart and wisdom.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/im-laughing-because-im-crying-by-youngmi-mayer-w-john-debary/
LOCATION:New Design High School\, 350 Grand Street\, 6th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
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