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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
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