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Joanna Ho and Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya Meet & Greet
About We Who Produce Pearls: An Anthem for Asian America
From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author, Joanna Ho, comes an uplifting call to action that highlights Asian American history, paired with vibrant and colorful illustrations by artist and activist, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya…
J.S. Park Meet and Greet / Signing ft. Qian Julie Wang
About As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permission and the process for how to grieve and heal at your own pace.
In As Long As You Need, J.S. offers an honest and unrushed engagement with grief, decoding four types of grieving--spiritual, mental, physical, and relational--and offering compassionate self-care and soul-care along the way…
Daughters of Shandong Book Launch Event
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About Daughters of Shandong
A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story…
The Apology Paperback Launch | Jimin Han in conversation with Kirsten Chen
About The Apology
This "sweeping intergenerational saga" tells the story of a pampered and defiant South Korean matriarch thrust into the afterlife from which she seeks a second chance to make amends (Kirstin Chen)--and fights off a tragic curse that could devastate generations to come.
In South Korea, a 105-year-old woman receives a letter. Ten days later, she has been thrust into the afterlife, fighting to head off a curse that will otherwise devastate generations to come.
Sahaj Kaur Kohli - But What Will People Say
About But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures
A deeply personal, paradigm-shifting book rethinking traditional therapy and self-care, creating much-needed space for those left out of the narrative.
Writer and therapist Sahaj Kaur Kohli grew up knowing exactly what it means to straddle multiple cultures at once. Like many children of immigrants, she has often found herself plagued by questions: Can I establish my own values and embrace where I come from? Is prioritizing my mental health really rejecting my culture? How do I set boundaries and care for myself when family and community mean everything? Even after becoming a therapist herself, she saw those same gaps in the mental health world, leading her to wonder, like so many children of immigrants: what about us?…
Shanghailanders with Julie Min and Vanessa Chan | Yu and Me Books & AAWW
About Shanghailanders
A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in time--beginning in 2040 and moving through our present and the recent past--exploring their secrets, their losses, and the ways a family makes and remakes itself across the years.
2040: Wealthy real estate investor Leo Yang--handsome, distinguished, a real Shanghai man--is on the train back to the city after seeing his family off at the airport. His sophisticated Japanese-French wife, Eko, and their two eldest children, Yumi and Yoko, are headed for Boston, though one daughter's revelation will soon reroute them to Paris. 2039: Kiko, their youngest daughter and an aspiring actress, decides to pursue fame at any cost, like her icon Marilyn Monroe. 2038: Yumi comes to Yoko in need, after a college-dorm situation at Harvard goes disastrously wrong…
If Lin Can by Richard Ho | Meet & Greet
About If Lin Can: How Jeremy Lin Inspired Asian Americans to Shoot for the Stars
This biography of basketball superstar Jeremy Lin is an anthem of Asian American pride that speaks to any child who feels underestimated or misunderstood. If Lin can, you can!
Have you ever been told that you CAN'T? Growing up in the Bay Area, Jeremy Lin heard that over and over again. People made fun of his size and his race and wouldn't give him a chance. But Jeremy persevered until he became the first Taiwanese American to play in the NBA. And when his big moment came, he seized it!
Jeremy's meteoric rise, dubbed "Linsanity," inspired the world and a whole generation of young Asian Americans. As author Richard Ho puts it, "Jeremy's struggles were our struggles, so his triumphs were our triumphs. He made us believe that if he could succeed, so could we."
Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise: A Novel in Translation with Jenna Tang
About Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise: A Novel in Translation
The most influential book of Taiwan's #MeToo movement--a heartbreaking account of sexual violence and a remarkable reinvention of the trauma plot, turning the traditional Lolita narrative upside down as it explores women's vulnerability, victimization, and the lengths they will go to survive.
Thirteen-year-old Fang Si-Chi lives with her family in an upscale apartment complex in Taiwan, a tightknit community of strict yet doting parents and privileged children raised to be ambitious, dutiful, and virtuous. She and her neighbor Liu Yi-Ting bond over their love of learning and books, devouring classic works--Proust, Gabriel García Márquez, the very best Chinese writers. Yet, it is their lack of real-world education that makes them true kindred spirits…
What's Eating Jackie Oh? & Relative Strangers Double Book Launch Event
In What's Eating Jackie Oh?, a Korean American teen tries to balance her dream to become a chef with the cultural expectations of her family when she enters the competitive world of a TV cooking show. A hilarious and heartfelt YA novel from the award-winning author of Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim and Re Jane.
From the acclaimed author of A Good Family comes, Relative Strangers, a timely spin on Sense and Sensibility, a twenty-first-century family drama featuring two half-Korean sisters, their ex-hippie mother, multiple messy love affairs and one explosive secret that could ruin everything…
Real Americans by Rachel Khong | In conversation with Weike Wang
About Real Americans
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?…
R.O. Kwon: Exhibit w/ Mary H.K. Choi
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NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE MILLIONS, BUSTLE, BOOK RIOT, TODAY.COM, MS. MAGAZINE, THE RUMPUS, LITERARY HUB, AUTOSTRADDLE, LGBTQ READS, BIBLIO LIFESTYLE, AND GOOP
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between her desires and her life.
At a lavish party in the hills outside of San Francisco, Jin Han meets Lidija Jung and nothing will ever be the same for either woman. A brilliant young photographer, Jin is at a crossroads in her work, in her marriage to her college love Philip, and in who she is and who she wants to be. Lidija is an alluring, injured world-class ballerina on hiatus from her ballet company under mysterious circumstances. Drawn to each other by their intense artistic drives, the two women talk all night…
Chinatown Photo Album Zine Launch Party
Chinatown Photo Album is a community-sourced archive of family photographs and stories connected to Manhattan’s Chinatown. Over the past year, the project has gathered submissions with the goal of highlighting the everyday moments, milestones and memories that shape the neighborhood. Now, Chinatown Photo Album has created a free zine for community members that showcases these photos and stories in English and Chinese. Come to Yu and Me Books to celebrate the launch of the zine and pick up a copy.
https://www.instagram.com/chinatownphotoalbum/
Mott Street Paperback Launch - Chinatown, Then and Now
In celebration of Mott Street’s paperback launch, join Ava Chin, Ken Chen, Lucy Yu, and special guests for a discussion about Chinatown: Then & Now! 10% of all book sale proceeds will benefit Chatham Square Library.
About Mott Street
A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one family's epic journey to lay down roots in America…
Chanel Miller's Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All | Launch Event
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED. FIRST COME FIRST SERVED.
About Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All
New York Times bestselling author and artist Chanel Miller tells a fun, funny, and poignant story of friendship and community starring Magnolia Wu, a ten-year-old sock detective bent on returning all the lonely only socks left behind in her parents' NYC laundromat…
The Bridges Yuri Built by Kai Naima Williams | Meet & Greet / Signing
About The Bridges Yuri Built: How Yuri Kochiyama Marched Across Movements
INTRODUCING THE NEXT GENERATION OF YOUNG READERS TO ONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S MOST COURAGEOUS FREEDOM FIGHTERS, YURI KOCHIYAMA (1921 -- 2014).
Debut children's picture book author Kai Naima Williams -- great-granddaughter of Yuri Kochiyama -- intimately chronicles the experiences and lessons, hardships and victories, and people and places that shaped Yuri's life and influenced her activism. From Yuri's incarceration in a Japanese-American concentration camp during World War II to her participation in movements organizing for better schools in Harlem to her close friendship with Malcolm X, Yuri never wavered in her belief in the power of the people -- especially young people -- to bring about social change…
NO/PEN MIC WITH HOST ED LIN!
-- "the no/pen mic"—there is no actual mic, but it is open
-- 8 pm start time
-- signups begin 7:30 pm
-- 5 minute time limit
-- all ages event
-- spoken word, poetry, prose, singing, standup, and beyond
A Quitter's Paradise Paperback Launch | Elysha Chang in conversation with Lisa Hsiao Chen
About A Quitter's Paradise
A Michelle Obama's Reach Higher Summer Reading List Pick - An NPR Critics Summer Pick - A Good Morning America Pick of the Month - A Good Reads Big Buzz Debut - A Tertulia Staff Pick of the Month - An Electric Literature Best Novel of 2023
"Compelling . . . Studded with sublime wit." --New York Times Book Review
Eleanor knows she’s been acting strangely. She’s dropped out of her PhD program and is ignoring calls from her husband. Lately, she finds herself walking circles in the park, leaving a trail of nuts and raisins in her wake. It’s all, in some sense, a response to her mother’s recent death. This she knows. But Eleanor can’t understand how you are supposed to grieve a mother you never understood. How do you love a person who refused to make herself known?…
Small Doses of Awareness: A Microdosing Companion Book Launch/Signing
Are you curious about, or have you been psychedelic microdosing? Co-authors Amy Wong Hope and Shin Yu Pai will discuss their new book, Small Doses of Awareness (Chronicle Prism, 2024) and discuss how you can use the prompts within it to deepen the microdosing experience. Through setting intentions, increasing awareness, and integrating realizations into action, you can increase safety and supports throughout the microdosing process while reducing harm. Hope and Pai will share their process of deciding what to include in this book and how you can use the book to integrate your small doses of awareness…
Pao Houa Her Meet & Greet / Signing
About Pao Houa Her: My Grandfather Turned Into a Tiger ... and Other Illusions
Pao Houa Her's first major monograph, My grandfather turned into a tiger ... and other illusions, explores the fundamental concepts of home and belonging: illusion, desire, and loss…
Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere | In conversation with Marie Myung-Ok Lee
About I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
"Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutting with her words. But it is all in service of her own healing and to encourage us all to be brave enough to do the same in our own stories." --W. Kamau Bell
Growing up with adoptive nisei parents, Susan Kiyo Ito knew only that her birth mother was Japanese American and her father white. But finding and meeting her birth mother in her early twenties was only the beginning of her search for answers, history, and identity…
Jezz Chung’s This Way to Change | A gathering for queer Asian healing and solidarity
About This Way to Change: A Gentle Guide to Personal Transformation and Collective Liberation--Poems, Prose, Practices
An inspirational roadmap to changing yourself--and the world--through self-healing, transformation, and decolonization from artist, poet, and changemaker Jezz Chung.
Artist, poet, and performer Jezz Chung (they/them) focuses on cultural change through personal transformation. In This Way to Change, Jezz shares contemporary poetry, accessible prose, and healing practices from different therapeutic modalities to explore subjects like healing your inner child, nourishing friendships, decolonizing your thinking, deconstructing binaries, and intentional community-making. The interactive healing practices in this book include writing and reflection prompts, somatic exercises, guided meditations, and more to help readers tap into their powers of self-healing on their journey through change…
Green Frog & A Small Apocalypse Double Book Launch in conversation with Mira Jacob
About Green Frog: Stories
From the author of Sea Change comes a short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformation as a means of survival…
About A Small Apocalypse: Stories
A gorgeously wrought exploration of what it means to exist in the in-between.
In her debut short-story collection A Small Apocalypse, Laura Chow Reeve examines cultural inheritance, hybridity, queerness, and the stickiness of home with an eye for both the uncanny and the realistic: human bodies become reptilian, queer ghosts haunt their friends, a young woman learns to pickle memories, and a theater floods during an apocalyptic movie marathon…
The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang | NYC Launch Event with Dustin Thao
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About The Emperor and the Endless Palace: A Romantasy Novel
"What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recognition, when your soul remembers someone from a previous life?"
In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor--but quickly discovers they are both ruled by blood, sex and intrigue.
In 1740, a lonely innkeeper agrees to help a mysterious visitor procure a rare medicine, only to unleash an otherworldly terror instead.
And in present-day Los Angeles, a college student meets a beautiful stranger and cannot shake the feeling they've met before…
Defector Reading Series @ Yu and Me Books
Please join the writers of Defector for selected readings on sports, politics, and culture. We'll be hearing from staffers David Roth, Israel Daramola, Lauren Theisen, and Tom Ley, along with freelance contributors.
Defector is an employee-owned publication, and we're grateful for the reader support that's kept us publishing and thriving in year four. We welcome loyal subscribers and curious newcomers alike as we revisit a few of our favorite pieces from recent months.
Inside the Mirror by Parul Kapur | NYC Book Launch Event | In conversation with Sangamithra Iyer
Yu and Me Books x AAWW
No registration required!
About Inside the Mirror
Winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel
In 1950s Bombay, Jaya Malhotra studies medicine at the direction of her father, a champion of women's education who assumes the right to choose his daughters' vocations. A talented painter drawn to the city's dynamic new modern art movement, Jaya is driven by her desire to express both the pain and extraordinary force of life of a nation rising from the devastation of British rule. Her twin sister, Kamlesh, a passionate student of Bharata Natyam dance, complies with her father's decision that she become a schoolteacher while secretly pursuing forbidden dreams of dancing onstage and in the movies…
Memory Piece by Lisa Ko | In conversation with Ava Chin
Register here. Note that masking is required for the event.
About Memory Piece
The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. "Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves," they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom and creativity.
By the time they are adults, their dreams are murkier. As a performance artist, Giselle must navigate an elite social world she never conceived of. As a coder thrilled by the internet's early egalitarian promise, Jackie must contend with its more sinister shift toward monetization and surveillance. And as a community activist, Ellen confronts the increasing gentrification and policing overwhelming her New York City neighborhood. Over time their friendship matures and changes, their definitions of success become complicated, and their sense of what matters evolves…
The First Amerasians Book Launch Party
No registration required! Open to the public.
About The First Amerasians
During the 1950s, thousands of mixed race children were born to US servicemen and local Korean women in US-occupied South Korea. Assumed to be the progeny of camptown women--or military prostitutes--their presence created a major problem for the image of US democracy in the world at a time when the nation was vying for Cold War allegiances abroad. As mixed race children became a discernible population around US military encampments in South Korea, communists seized upon the image of those left behind by their GI fathers as evidence of US imperialism, irresponsibility, and immorality in the Third World. Aware of this and keen to redeem the image of America's intervention in Asia, US citizens spearheading the postwar recovery of recently war-torn South Korea embarked upon a campaign in US Congress to bring as many of these children home…
Asterism and OCTOBERS | Double Poetry Book Launch with Ae Hee Lee and Sahar Muradi
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About Asterism: Poems
"What does it mean to seek a life beyond belonging? Traveling through rich landscapes of memory, Ae Hee Lee's Asterism retraces the poet's lineage from South Korea to Peru to the United States, restlessly seeking the self 'at the edge of every edge.' Words bloom and refract as they move across borders; uncertainties ring out in the gaps. Yet what is most powerful about this book is how it reaches again and again toward the reader, toward the possibilities that exist between 'my air and your ear.' A tender, finely-tuned collection, and a beautiful contribution to the canon of Korean diasporic literature."-Franny Choi …
About OCTOBERS
Winner of the 2022 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry
Octobers traces the four great tumults of the author's life, all of which originated in that jagged month of different years: The US invasion and occupation of her native Afghanistan, the death of her father, the sudden end of a love, and the birth of her daughter. The poems chart heartbreak along a helix, progressively and recursively, where "echoes are inevitable." Ultimately, the collection is concerned with language--as witness and buoy in the white waters of loss, as a tool for violences small and state-crafted, as an asymptote both approaching ideas of "home" and estranged from it, and, beyond it all and still, as a source of wild wonder.
Palestinian Storytime for All Ages
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About Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine
A father and his daughters may not be able to return home . . . but they can celebrate stories of their homeland!
As bedtime approaches, three young girls eagerly await the return of their father who tells them stories of a faraway homeland--Palestine. Through their father's memories, the Old City of Jerusalem comes to life: the sounds of juice vendors beating rhythms with brass cups, the smell of argileh drifting through windows, and the sight of doves flapping their wings toward home. These daughters of the diaspora feel love for a place they have never been, a home they cannot visit. But, as their father's story comes to an end, they know that through his memories, they will always return..
About These Olive Trees
The story of a Palestinian family's ties to the land, and how one young girl finds a way to care for her home, even as she says goodbye.
It's 1967 in Nablus, Palestine.
Oraib loves the olive trees that grow outside the refugee camp where she lives. Each harvest, she and her mama pick the small fruits and she eagerly stomp stomp stomps on them to release their golden oil. Olives have always tied her family to the land, as Oraib learns from the stories Mama tells of a home before war…
Eric's Sister by Kaitlin Chan | NYC Book Launch | In conversation with Ping Zhu
Masks required! No registration required!
About Eric’s Sister
Lisa and her brother Eric are aspiring artists in their twenties. Lisa has always loved drawing, and Eric is a painter poised for a career breakthrough. But as they each struggle to make their mark, there is a disquieting undercurrent of what they can’t tell each other. Lisa has always played second fiddle to her brother, but how much longer can she feel like a supporting actor in her own life?
A slice of life-graphic novel set in Hong Kong, Eric’s Sister explores creative doubt, the uneasy love between family members, and friendship as a salve in dark times.
Book Launch: The Manicurist's Daughter by Susan Lieu
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Featuring DJ Tina Snow @tinasnowle!
ABOUT THE MANICURIST'S DAUGHTER
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery.
Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family’s past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam War, Susan’s family escaped to California in the 1980s after five failed attempts. Upon arrival, Susan’s mother was their savvy, charismatic North Star, setting up two successful nail salons and orchestrating every success—until Susan was eleven. That year, her mother died from a botched tummy tuck. After the funeral, no one was ever allowed to talk about her or what had happened…
NO/PEN MIC WITH HOST ED LIN!
-- "the no/pen mic"—there is no actual mic, but it is open
-- 8 pm start time
-- signups begin 7:30 pm
-- 5 minute time limit
-- all ages event
-- spoken word, poetry, prose, singing, standup, and beyond
The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha | Meet & Greet / Signing
No registration required!
About The Fox Maidens
From the bestselling, award-winning creator of Almost American Girl comes an epic new graphic novel fantasy--a queer, feminist reimagining of the Fox Maiden legend from Korean mythology. Perfect for fans of Nimona, Squire, and The Prince and the Dressmaker..
Collecting The Silences of Diasporic Love Poetry Workshop with Susan Nguyen and Joshua Nguyen
In this generative writing workshop, Susan Nguyen and Joshua Nguyen will lead participants in writing zines that move towards the way love and legacy permeate through gaps, fragments, and stillness. We will use mentor texts by Theresa Hak Kyung, Kimiko Hahn, and other writers. Followed by the workshop, Susan and Joshua will have a reading from their books, and sign any copies that folks purchase.
Free Palestine Protest Sign Making & Letter Writing Kit Pick-Up
we’re gathering at @yuandmebooks to create protest signs ahead of saturday when millions will march for P4lestine to demand a ce4sefire and hands off r4fah.
we’ll also be handing out complete letter writing kits for you to bring home n write to your reps with your roomies/family/besties/frenemies whoever!!!
grab your friends and see you friday!!! lfg🍉
🪧poster making + letter writing kit distro
📍@yuandmebooks 44 mulberry st
📆 friday 3/1
⏰ 6p - 9p
😷 mask 4 mask required
🍉we will have all the supplies for you!
ce4sefire now! hands off r4fah!🍉
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir by Curtis Chin | In conversation with Ed Lin
About Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir
Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone--from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples--could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned to embrace his identity as a gay ABC, or American-born Chinese; where he navigated the divided city's spiraling misfortunes; and where--between helpings of almond boneless chicken, sweet-and-sour pork, and some of his own, less-savory culinary concoctions--he realized just how much he had to offer to the world, to his beloved family, and to himself.
Served up by the cofounder of the Asian American Writers' Workshop and structured around the very menu that graced the tables of Chung's, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant is both a memoir and an invitation: to step inside one boy's childhood oasis, scoot into a vinyl booth, and grow up with him--and perhaps even share something off the secret menu.
CURTIS CHIN
A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin served as the non-profits’ first Executive Director. He went on to write for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries. Chin has screened his films at over 600 venues in sixteen countries. He has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press, and the Emancipator/Boston Globe. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Chin has received awards from ABC/Disney Television, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and more. His memoir, "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" was published by Little, Brown in Fall 2023. His essay in Bon Appetit was just selected for Best Food Writing in America 2023 and he just produced an episode of America's Test Kitchen's podcast, Proof.
ED LIN, a native New Yorker of Taiwanese and Chinese descent, is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards. His Taipei-based mystery series is published by Soho Crime, the latest of which is Death Doesn’t Forget. His YA book, David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College was published by Kaya Press. Member of the Asian American Writers‘ Workshop since 1992, and MC of Yu & Me Books’ No/pen Mic since 2022. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, actress Cindy Cheung, and son.
CLOTHING SWAP!!
SPRING CLEANING IS IN AND CLOTHING SWAP IS BACK! Bring your clothes, dump them, and grab something new for your own closet! You don’t even have to show up with any clothes to swap, you can dig through the free clothes we have!
Katherine Min's "The Fetishist" Book Launch Event
Celebrate Katherine Min’s posthumous masterpiece, The Fetishist, completed by her daughter Kayla Min Andrews. Susan Choi will be joining in conversation.
Year of the Tiger Records Pop-Up
Year of the Tiger Records
Record store pop-up specializing in rare, used, and new vinyl by artists from Asia, the Pacific, and the diaspora.
https://www.instagram.com/yottrecords/
