TALK | Transplants with Daniel Tam-Claiborne

Speaker: Daniel Tam Claiborne

Moderator: Daniella Lopez

Date: March 7, Sat

Time: 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Venue: Fringe Club - Fringe Underground

Address: Fringe Club, 2 Lower Albert Rd, Central

Price: HKD228

Language: English

Format: Talk

Description:
Transplants is a harrowing and poignant novel about two young women in pursuit of kinship and self-discovery in a world that refuses to make space for them. On a rural Chinese university campus, Lin, a socially isolated student, and Liz, a Chinese American teacher grieving her mother’s death, form an unlikely friendship amid suspicion, privilege, and prejudice. After a shocking betrayal leads them to swap lives across continents, both women are forced to confront migration, identity, and belonging as global tensions rise. Daniel Tam-Claiborne is the author of What Never Leaves, and his writing has appeared in Catapult, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, HuffPost, and elsewhere.

About the Speaker:

Daniel Tam-Claiborne

Daniel Tam-Claiborne is the author of the debut novel Transplants, a finalist for the 2023 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, and the short story collection, What Never Leaves. His writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, HuffPost, Catapult, Literary Hub, and more. A 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, he has also received fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Poets & Writers, Bread Loaf, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, and others. Daniel holds degrees from Oberlin College, Yale University, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

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