BookPeople Presents: Monica Macansantos - Returning to My Father's Kitchen

Please welcome Monica Macansantos and Greg Marshall to celebrate Returning to My Father's Kitchen!

This event is free and open to the public.

• Start time: 7:00 P.M.
• Run time: 45-60 minutes, followed by a signing line.
• Location: The second floor of BookPeople.

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About the book:

A young Filipino writer’s odyssey toward home, in the wake of the loss of her poet father

Feeling untethered after her beloved poet father passes away while she is living abroad, Monica Macansantos decides to return to the Philippines to regain her bearings. But with her father gone and her adult life rooted in the United States and New Zealand, can the land of her birth still serve as a place of healing?

In fifteen richly felt essays, Macansantos considers her family’s history in the Philippines, her own experiences as an exile, and the parent who was the heart of her family’s kitchen, whether standing at the stove to prepare dinner or sitting at the table to scribble in his notebook. Macansantos finds herself remaking her father’s chicken adobo, but also closely rereading his poems. As she reckons with his identity as an artist, she also comes into her own as a writer, and she invites us to consider whether it is possible to carry our homes with us wherever we go.

About the author:

Monica Macansantos is the author of Returning to My Father's Kitchen: Essays, out from Curbstone/Northwestern University Press, and Love and Other Rituals: Selected Stories. She is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers and her work has appeared in Colorado Review, The Hopkins Review, Bennington Review, and River Styx, among other publications. Her honors include a Shearing Fellowship with the Black Mountain Institute in Las Vegas, and fellowships from Hedgebrook, the I-Park Foundation, and Monson Arts, among others.

About the moderator:

Greg Marshall is the author of Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It (Abrams). A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Prose, he is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays and has been supported by MacDowell and the Corporation of Yaddo.

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