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    • Author Talk: Gish Jen with Weike Wang: Bad Bad Girl (Hybrid)

    NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
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    The acclaimed novelist mines her own family history for an intimate story of mothers, daughters, and the wounds that echo across generations. Gish Jen’s latest novel, Bad Bad Girl, began as a memoir of her late mother, Loo Shu-hsin, before evolving into a fictionalized portrait of their turbulent mother-daughter relationship. As a child Shu-hsin learns how […]

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    • Kevin Nguyen: Mỹ Documents

    NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
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    In his second novel, Mỹ Documents, Kevin Nguyen follows four Vietnamese cousins whose lives are upended after a terrorist attack incites a government crackdown that targets their community through mass internment of Vietnamese-American citizens. Nguyen relies on the history of Japanese internment, the Vietnam War, and more recent immigrant detention to imagine a not-entirely-implausible near […]

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    Opium Wars, Chinatown, and NYC Punk with Alvin Eng

    NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

    NYPL Long-Term Fellow Alvin Eng presents a work-in-progress look at his forthcoming work of history and memoir, Urban Oracle Bones, which explores the cultural dynamic between opium and the “heroin chic” punk scene of 1970s NYC. Drawing on resources from the Library’s Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, as […]

    • Eliza Griswold and Hahrie Han with Andrea Elliott: Reckoning with Race in the Church

    NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY +1 more
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    Not all evangelical churches fit the stereotypes. In their latest books, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Eliza Griswold and the Inaugural Director of the SNF Agora Institute, Hahrie Han, bear witness to two churches who break the mold. In Circle of Hope, Griswold chronicles the ravaging and ultimately destructive results to a group of progressive-leaning Philadelphia evangelicals […]

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