Book signing and meet the author with Curtis Chin
Schedule
Fri, 02 Feb, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Location
3142 E. Michigan Ave. Lansing, MI, United States, Michigan 48912 | Lansing, MI
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Join us to meet author Curtis Chin for a book signing featuring his Michigan Notable Book- Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in Detroit. Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe place, 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.
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Where is it happening?
3142 E. Michigan Ave. Lansing, MI, United States, Michigan 48912, 3140 E Michigan Ave, Lansing, MI 48912-4669, United States,Lansing, MichiganEvent Location & Nearby Stays: