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SUMMARY:Great Michigan Read Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin.\nFrom the publisher’s website: “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.\nServed 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.”\nAlong with being the 2025-26 Great Michigan Read, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant was also a 2024 Michigan Notable Book.\n\nThis event is part of the Great Michigan Read program. The 2025–26 Great Michigan Read is presented by Michigan Humanities. Additional support is provided by national, statewide, and local partners, including the Library of Michigan and MSU Federal Credit Union. This program is made possible in part by a grant from Michigan Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.\n\n
URL:https://www.parchmentlibrary.org/events/great-michigan-read-book-discussion/
CATEGORIES:Adult
LOCATION:401 S Riverview Dr, Parchment, MI 49004
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