A Night with Author Gish Jen

The Library is pleased to announce A Night with Author Gish Jen. Known for exploring the multicultural experience in novels like Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land, best-selling author Gish Jen turns to nonfiction in The Girl at the Baggage Claim to clarify how differently Easterners and Westerners regard the concepts of self and society, and what that means for education, politics, business, and art in an ever closer world.

TEACHERS! While supplies last: show your school ID at Belmont Books beginning Jan. 24  or at the Feb. 6 talk and pick up a free copy of The Girl at the Baggage Claim, courtesy of Gish Jen.

“I loved the book! A deep psychological examination of how place, habits, and identity mix in our world. Tremendous!” — Yo-Yo Ma

“Misunderstanding East-West differences can cost us in every way we know how to measure. The Girl at the Baggage Claim is remarkable and fluent but, most of all essential.” — Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, and author of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

Q & A session and book signing to follow the talk. Books for sale by Belmont Books.

Co-sponsors: Belmont Against Racism, Belmont Books, Council on Aging, Friends of the Belmont Public Library, Human Rights Commission

Click here for the event flyer.