Join us to hear two beloved local authors\ , Cristina Henrí\;quez and Susan Blumberg-Kason\, in conversation ab out the art of writing and Cristina's new novel. \;The Great Divid e is a powerful story about the construction of the Panama Canal\, ca sting light on the unsung people who lived\, loved\, and labored there
\nCopies \;will be available for check out on March 5th\, and copie s of Susan's newest book Bernardine's Shanghai Salon are availabl e to check out now. \;
\nThe event will take place on the Librar y's main floor. We will have \;The Great Divide \;for sal e during the event. You may also purchase a copy of any of Cristina or Sus an's books in advance and bring them to be signed.
\nCristin a Henriquez
\nCristina Henrí\;quez \;is the autho r of \;The Great Divide\, which was a TODAY Show Read With Jenna pick. She is also the author of \;The Book of Unknown Americans\, \;The World in Half \;and \;Come Together\, Fall Apart: A Novella and S tories. She has been longlisted \;for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Ex cellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize . Her writing has appeared in \;The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The Ne w York Times Magazine\, The Wall Street Journal\, Real Simple\, The Oxford American\, The American Scholar\, \;and elsewhere. \;
\nSusan Blumberg-Kason is the aut hor of \;Bernardine&rsquo\;s Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China \;and \;Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China G one Wrong. She is also the co-editor of \;Hong Kong Noir. Susan is a r egular contributor to the \;Asian Review of Books \;and \;Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. \;Her work has also appeared in the \; Los Angeles Review of Books\, \;World Literature Today\, PopMatters\,& nbsp\;and the \;South China Morning Post. She received an MPhil in Gov ernment and Public Administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong \, where she researched provincial assemblies in the late Qing dynasty.&nb sp\;
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