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Tomorrow in Shanghai is coming on August 30, 2022!
Events for Tomorrow in Shanghai:
Join May-lee on her Virtual Book Tour!
All events free and open to the public and only online.
Check back for registration information as we get closer to the dates:
Wed. August 31, 2022
**East Coast Launch**
The Strand Bookstore, NYC, 4 pm PT/ 7 pm ET
in conversation with Sequoia Nagamatsu (How High We Go in the Dark)
Topic: Speculative Fiction and Literary Fiction
Thurs. Sept. 1, 2022
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, 6 pm PT/ 9 pm ET
in conversation with Dr. Tonya Foster (A Swarm of Bees in High Court)
Topic: Social Justice and Creative Writing
**San Francisco Launch**
https://allevents.in/online/may-lee-chai-in-conversation-with-drtonya-m-foster/10000371362223407#
Tues. Sept.13, 2022
Book Passages, Corte Madera, CA, 5:30 pm PT/ 8:30 pm ET
in conversation with Melissa Fu (Peach Blossom Spring)
Topic: What Historical Fiction Can Tell Us about the Present
https://www.bookpassage.com/category/event-classes-categories/virtual-events
Mon. Sept. 26, 2022
Elliott Bay Books, Seattle, WA, 7 pm PT/ 10 pm ET
in conversation with Charles Yu (Interior Chinatown)
Thurs. Oct. 6, 2022
Green Apple Books, San Francisco, 6 pm PT/ 9 pm ET
in conversation with C Pam Zhang (How Much of These Hills Is Gold)
https://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/2022-10
Tues. Nov. 15, 2022
Yu & Me Books, Chinatown, New York City, 3 pm PT/ 6 pm ET
in conversation with Gish Jen (Thank You, Mr. Nixon)
Topic: The Pleasures of Writing and Reading Short Stories
https://www.crowdcast.io/c/tomorrowinshanghai
Pre-order here:https://www.blairpub.com/shop/tomorrow-in-shanghai
Advance Praise:
“May-lee Chai’s abundant gifts as a writer are on full display in this collection. In these stories we find people displaced, people who find themselves, by choice or by accident, navigating foreign lands and strange worlds, looking for the way home. With invention and nuance, Chai creates a sense of heightened awareness, of distance, both physical and emotional. Illuminating, heart-breaking and yet also very funny, Tomorrow In Shanghai is a rewarding and entertaining read.”–Charles Yu, National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown
“There’s a beautiful directness in these stories that is itself a kind of moral courage. This collection is full of heartbreak and love, unbearable yearning and fulfillment, and, over and over again, the pain of not being seen—and in May-lee Chai’s sentences, there is wondrous seeing. Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories is a superb and powerfully affecting collection.” –Clare Beams, Bard Fiction Prize-winning author of We Show What We Have Learned and The Illness Lesson.
“Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories by May-lee Chai is an insightful, empathetic collection with a vast and imaginative range. These stories and narrators across the Chinese diaspora examine the complexity of familial relationships, probe our most formative experiences and memories, and ask what it means to belong.”– K-Ming Chang, author of Bestiary
” Chai plunges into the caverns of the human experience and untaps a rich bounty. Tomorrow in Shanghai is a tribute not only to Chinese immigrants but to anyone who has seen the American dream come up short.”
—Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, author of the National Book Award-nominated novel, A Kind of Freedom, and NAACP Image Award-winning novel, The Revisioners.