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SUMMARY:Karin Jensen Brings THE STRENGTH OF WATER to Oakland Heritage Alliance
DESCRIPTION:Join Karin Jensen, author of The Strength of Water: An Asian American Coming-of-Age Memoir at the Oakland Heritage Alliance on November 20, 7 pm at the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, CA. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.\nThis is a ticketed event. To get a free ticket as a guest, enter the code: NOV_20_GUEST at this site here.\nAbout The Strength of Water:\nWater is fluid, soft, yielding. But water will wear away rock… what is soft is strong.” -Lao Tzu\nIn 1920s Detroit, King Ying lives in a small apartment behind her parents’ laundry business, where she stands on a box to iron clothes, endures taunts of “Ching-Ching Chinaman” on the playground, and tries to reconcile what passes for normal in Jazz Age America with her father’s vastly different cultural values.\nShe dreams of a real home, the elegance of her Jane Arden paper dolls, and winning her stern father’s affection. But when Ba incurs steep debts during the Great Depression, he sends her far from hope to live in his ancestral village.\nIn remote Tai Ting Pong, in the Guangdong Province of China, she feels as foreign in the land of her heritage as in the country of her birth. She must survive hunger, dangerous superstitions, and Japanese invasion as the Sino-Japanese War begins.\nWhen guardian angels help her return to the U.S., it’s a chance to seize her American dream. In this inspiring and heartfelt memoir, Karin K. Jensen records her mother’s transpacific quest for identity, survival, and new world dreams.\nAbout Karin Jensen\nKarin K. Jensen is a local news writer for the Alameda Post and the debut author of The Strength of Water: An Asian American Coming-of-Age Memoir, which made the Kirkus Reviews annual list of best indie books published and won awards from The BookFest, International Book Awards, and the San Francisco Book Festival. She has won NewsBreak editorial awards, including on the topics of #StopAsianHate and #AAPI Voices. For her work, Authority Magazine named her a social impact author. She makes her home in California.\n
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LOCATION:Chapel of the Chimes Oakland 4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA
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