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SUMMARY:Join Karin K. Jensen and Julia Park Tracy for Thriving in the Margins: History from a Woman’s Perspective in San Leandro, CA
DESCRIPTION:\n\nAuthors Julia Park Tracy and Karin K. Jensen reveal their research into the hidden pasts of their female ancestors\n\n\n\n\nSan Leandro Historical Society Presents\nAuthors Karin K. Jensen and Julia Park Tracy delve into the all-but-forgotten realities of women’s lives in this lively talk about researching and writing stories of their ancestors.\nThe Strength of Water by Karin K. Jensen vividly illuminates her mother’s journey from 1920s Detroit to wartime China — and back — in a powerful memoir of identity, survival, and new-world dreams. Karin will discuss how life, meaning, and dignity are built inside spaces and circumstances never designed for flourishing—immigrant laundries, racial exclusion, gendered expectations, and poverty. Thriving in these circumstances does not always look like visibility, power, or ease; often it looks like adaptation, persistence, and resilience. The Strength of Water is “A classic, vividly writen immigrant saga” (Kirkus Reviews).\nThe Bereaved and Silence, two historical novels by Julia Park Tracey, are based on her own genealogical research into her female ancestors. In her novels, Julia shows how women survived at the edges of mainstream society when they did not fit the mold, and how laws hemmed in women’s power and disregarded their steadfast love for their children. Whether by disenfranchising women, separating them from their children, or silencing women, the patriarchal societies of the past still resonate in today’s world. The Bereaved is “a beautifully written, well-researched and compelling book that will keep readers rushing to the end” (Historical Novel Society). Silence is “historically astute anad a compelling must-read” (Kirkus Reviews).\nRefreshments served after the 45-minute talk.\nBooks will be available for purchase and author signing. With high praise from both critics and readers, these books are not to be missed!\n\n\nClick HERE ( https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thriving-in-the-margins-history-from-a-womans-perspective-registration-1984201651553?aff=oddtdtcreator&mc_cid=2fbf97f48d&mc_eid=e87ecdc452&fbclid=IwY2xjawQ7jQNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFLekVCcGFSTFZmbXkycW5jc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmOUFpriY0GNRFTxad-wfxntpVOASyO5sbyyswhScAQj9AvgQrfyu9w1xNiz_aem_Bub9WY-H7faciVsdwl2z7g ) to purchase tickets.\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 \nAbout Julia Park Tracy\nAuthor Julia Park Tracey’s ancestors and their stories have given her a trail to follow from New York and New England to the deep south and the Pacific Coast. The Bereaved: A Novel, the story of her great great grandmother’s loss of her children to the Orphan Train was named in the top 100 indie books published in 2023 by Kirkus Reviews. Christian Kiefer, author of the newly released The Heart of it All, said: “In The Bereaved, Julia Park Tracey reopens America’s wounds in prose that is propulsive and resonant. Theodore Dreiser comes to mind, but so, too, the fine contemporary novels of Jo Baker and Maggie O’Farrell.”\n
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