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UPDATE:
Registration is full. There will be limited walk-in availability. Registration does not guarantee a seat, and participants are encouraged to arrive early.
This event is in-person at the Takoma Park Community Center, MD.
Politics and Prose is delighted to partner with the Takoma Park Maryland Library for an exciting program with bestselling author Kelly Yang.
Ten-year-old Lina Gao has been living with her grandmother in Beijing for the past five years while her parents and younger sister started making a life for the family in Los Angeles. Now she is flying across the world to live with them again. Lina has been waiting for this day for as long as she can remember—to begin her fabulous new life in America. As she begins to blend with her family, Lina discovers that life isn’t as easy as she thought it would be as problems begin to surface: it’s hard to communicate in English, there are financial problems she didn’t know about, and to top it all off, the first book in English that resonates—about an outsider just like her—gets pushback from parents asking if it's really “appropriate.” It will take all of Lina’s courage and resilience to get over her fear in order to choose a future where she’s finally seen.
Kelly Yang is the bestselling author of Front Desk (winner of the 2019 Asian Pacific American Award for Children’s Literature), Three Keys, Room to Dream, New From Here, and Finally Seen. Before turning to fiction, she was a columnist for the South China Morning Post for many years. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She has three children and lives in Los Angeles.
Ages 8-12
