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Inherited Cultures: Immigrant Stories Across Generations by Debut Novelists with Miriam Tuliao

$150

3 Sessions

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3 Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT February 6 to April 10, 2025

Online via Zoom

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Meeting Dates:
2/6, 3/6, 4/10
Online via Zoom

This group will read and discuss three award-winning debuts (including both a finalist and winner of The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize), ranging from a meditative saga and bold bildungsroman to an autobiographical love story that explores family, immigration, and inherited cultures. The stunning, epistolary grace of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (shortlisted for the 2019 First Novel Prize), the tender and elegant family story of The Five Wounds (winner of the 2021 First Novel Prize), and the witty narration of new adulthood in American Fever are all standout examples of the unique perspectives, intergenerational challenges, and myriad complications of immigrant stories.

What to read before the first meeting: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

What to expect from this reading group: This reading group will be conversational and participant-driven with the instructor facilitating the discussion.

Book List:

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade
American Fever by Dur e Aziz Amna

Capacity: 20

Please note: All virtual classes are recorded. Please click here for information about our recording policy.

Led by

Miriam Tuliao

Miriam Tuliao

Miriam Tuliao is a New York Public Library veteran, an adjunct library science lecturer, and a senior marketing manager at Penguin Random House. She is a member of the Women’s Media Group and Asian Pacific American Librarians Association.

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