Fiona and Jane (short stories) by Jane Chen Ho
A witty, warm, and irreverent book of stories that follows the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and family dynamics over a two-decade period. Beyond their school and family life, Fiona and Jane explore their city of Los Angeles together, and are often there for each other as they experience romance and heartache. Told in alternating voices, Jean Chen Ho’s unique and impressive debut collection shines a light on female friendship in all its intensity and glory.
Memorial (fiction) by Bryan Washington
Recently released in paperback is this quietly stunning book that details the small moments of a relationship during a personal pivotal time. Benson and Mike live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef and Benson is a Black daycare worker. Although they’ve been together for a few good years, they’re beginning to question their coupledom at a most inopportune time.
Lost and Found (memoir) by Kathryn Schulz
Eighteen months before journalist Kathryn Schulz’s beloved father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost and Found, she weaves the stories of those relationships into a dazzling exploration of how all our lives are shaped by loss and discovery. This heartwarming real life account will resonate with everyone.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, February 1 @ 5:30 pm (live-online event) Weike Wang, author of Joan Is Okay, with May-lee Chai
Kick off Lunar New Year with this timely and special event. Joan is a thirtysomething ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who came to the U.S. to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted to her work, happily solitary, successful. When Joan’s father suddenly dies and her mother returns to America from China to reconnect with her children, a series of events sends Joan spiraling out of her comfort zone just as her hospital, her city, and the world are forced to reckon with a health crisis more devastating than anyone could have imagined.
Weike Wang is the author of “Chemistry” and the just released novel, “Joan Is OK.” She is the recipient of the 2018 Pen Hemingway, a Whiting award, and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35. Her work has appeared in “Glimmer Train” and “The New Yorker,” among other publications.
Tuesday, February 15 @ 5:30 pm (live-online event) Shayda Kafai author of Crip Kinship, with Patty Berne
Crip Kinship explores the art activism of Sins Invalid, a San Francisco Bay Area-based performance project, and its radical imaginings of what disabled, queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming bodyminds of color can do: how they can rewrite oppression, and how they can gift us with transformational lessons for our collective survival.
Shayda Kafai (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Ethnic and Women’s Studies department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. As a queer, disabled, Mad femme of color, she commits to practicing the many ways we can reclaim our bodyminds from systems of oppression. To support this work as an educator-scholar, Shayda applies disability justice and collective care practices in the spaces she cultivates.
Published on January 27, 2022
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