Daniel Tam-Claiborne with Laura Maylene Walter

Name: Daniel Tam-Claiborne with Laura Maylene Walter
Start: 2025-11-18T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-18T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 1820 Coventry Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH, United States, Ohio 44118

Schedule

Tue Nov 18 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1820 Coventry Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH, United States, Ohio 44118 | Cleveland Heights, OH

Daniel Tam-Claiborne, author of the novel Transplants, will be at Mac's in conversation with Laura Maylene Walter on Tuesday, November 18th at 7 pm.
About Tranplants:
On a university campus in rural Qixian, Lin and Liz make an improbable pair: Lin, a Chinese student closer to her menagerie of pets than to her peers, and Liz, a Chinese American teacher grieving her mother's sudden death. They're each met with hostility--Lin by her classmates, who mock her for dating a white foreigner; Liz by her fellow English teachers, who exploit their privilege--and forge an unlikely friendship.
After a startling betrayal that results in Lin's expulsion, they swap places. Lin becomes convinced to pursue her degree at a community college near Liz's Ohio hometown, while Liz searches for answers as to what drove her parents to leave China before she was born. But when a global catastrophe deepens the fissures between modern-day China and an increasingly fractured United States, Lin and Liz--far from home and estranged from themselves--are forced to confront both the familiar and the strange in each other.
Daniel Tam-Claiborne is a multiracial writer, multimedia producer, and nonprofit director. He is the author of the short story collection What Never Leaves, and his writing has appeared in Catapult, Literary Hub, Off Assignment, The Rumpus, HuffPost, and elsewhere. Daniel holds degrees from Oberlin College, Yale University, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle.
Laura Maylene Walter, author of Body of Stars is a writer and editor in Cleveland. Her writing has appeared in Poets & Writers, Kenyon Review, The Sun, Slate, Literary Hub, Ninth Letter, The Masters Review, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships, residencies, or grants from Tin House, Yaddo, the Ohioana Library Association, the Chautauqua Institution, and Art Omi: Writers. She is the Ohio Center for the Book Fellow at Cleveland Public Library.