Join the MFA Program for a reading by Kaitlin Solimine, who will be discussing her debut novel, Empire of Glass.
March 3, 2018
Desai Matta Gallery, 1st floor
California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
About Empire of Glass: In the mid-1990s, an American teenager, named Lao K in Chinese, stands on Coal Hill, a park in Beijing, a loop of rope in her hand. Will she assist her Chinese homestay mother, Li-Ming, who is dying of cancer, in ending her life, or will she choose another path? Twenty years later, Lao K receives a book written by Li-Ming called "Empire of Glass," a narrative that chronicles the lives of Li-Ming and her husband, Wang, in pre and post-revolutionary China over the last half of the twentieth century. Lao K begins translating the story, which becomes the novel we are reading. But, as translator, how can Lao K separate fact from fiction, and what will her role be in the book's final chapter?
About the Author:
Kaitlin Solimine’s debut novel, Empire of Glass, was named a Finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and has been called a “gorgeous experimental work” by BookRiot. Raised in New England, Kaitlin has considered China a second home for almost two decades. While majoring in East Asian Studies at Harvard University, she was a Harvard-Yenching scholar and wrote and edited Let’s Go: China. She has received a Fulbright Creative Arts Fellowship, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarship, and the Dzanc Books/Disquiet International Literary Program award judged by Colson Whitehead. Her writing has been published in Guernica Magazine, National Geographic News, The Wall Street Journal, Kartika Review, China Daily, and more. She is co-founder of the academic media platform, Hippo Reads, and after spending two years in Singapore, resides in San Francisco with her husband and daughter where she was a 2016 SF Writers Grotto Fellow. She is associate producer of the childbirth documentary, These Are My Hours.
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March 3, 2018
Desai Matta Gallery, 1st floor
California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
About Empire of Glass: In the mid-1990s, an American teenager, named Lao K in Chinese, stands on Coal Hill, a park in Beijing, a loop of rope in her hand. Will she assist her Chinese homestay mother, Li-Ming, who is dying of cancer, in ending her life, or will she choose another path? Twenty years later, Lao K receives a book written by Li-Ming called "Empire of Glass," a narrative that chronicles the lives of Li-Ming and her husband, Wang, in pre and post-revolutionary China over the last half of the twentieth century. Lao K begins translating the story, which becomes the novel we are reading. But, as translator, how can Lao K separate fact from fiction, and what will her role be in the book's final chapter?
About the Author:
Kaitlin Solimine’s debut novel, Empire of Glass, was named a Finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and has been called a “gorgeous experimental work” by BookRiot. Raised in New England, Kaitlin has considered China a second home for almost two decades. While majoring in East Asian Studies at Harvard University, she was a Harvard-Yenching scholar and wrote and edited Let’s Go: China. She has received a Fulbright Creative Arts Fellowship, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarship, and the Dzanc Books/Disquiet International Literary Program award judged by Colson Whitehead. Her writing has been published in Guernica Magazine, National Geographic News, The Wall Street Journal, Kartika Review, China Daily, and more. She is co-founder of the academic media platform, Hippo Reads, and after spending two years in Singapore, resides in San Francisco with her husband and daughter where she was a 2016 SF Writers Grotto Fellow. She is associate producer of the childbirth documentary, These Are My Hours.
Join the MFA Program for a reading by Kaitlin Solimine, who will be discussing her debut novel, Empire of Glass.
March 3, 2018
Desai Matta Gallery, 1st floor
California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
About Empire of Glass: In the mid-1990s, an American teenager, named Lao K in Chinese, stands on Coal Hill, a park in Beijing, a loop of rope in her hand. Will she assist her Chinese homestay mother, Li-Ming, who is dying of cancer, in ending her life, or will she choose another path? Twenty years later, Lao K receives a book written by Li-Ming called "Empire of Glass," a narrative that chronicles the lives of Li-Ming and her husband, Wang, in pre and post-revolutionary China over the last half of the twentieth century. Lao K begins translating the story, which becomes the novel we are reading. But, as translator, how can Lao K separate fact from fiction, and what will her role be in the book's final chapter?
About the Author:
Kaitlin Solimine’s debut novel, Empire of Glass, was named a Finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and has been called a “gorgeous experimental work” by BookRiot. Raised in New England, Kaitlin has considered China a second home for almost two decades. While majoring in East Asian Studies at Harvard University, she was a Harvard-Yenching scholar and wrote and edited Let’s Go: China. She has received a Fulbright Creative Arts Fellowship, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarship, and the Dzanc Books/Disquiet International Literary Program award judged by Colson Whitehead. Her writing has been published in Guernica Magazine, National Geographic News, The Wall Street Journal, Kartika Review, China Daily, and more. She is co-founder of the academic media platform, Hippo Reads, and after spending two years in Singapore, resides in San Francisco with her husband and daughter where she was a 2016 SF Writers Grotto Fellow. She is associate producer of the childbirth documentary, These Are My Hours.
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March 3, 2018
Desai Matta Gallery, 1st floor
California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
About Empire of Glass: In the mid-1990s, an American teenager, named Lao K in Chinese, stands on Coal Hill, a park in Beijing, a loop of rope in her hand. Will she assist her Chinese homestay mother, Li-Ming, who is dying of cancer, in ending her life, or will she choose another path? Twenty years later, Lao K receives a book written by Li-Ming called "Empire of Glass," a narrative that chronicles the lives of Li-Ming and her husband, Wang, in pre and post-revolutionary China over the last half of the twentieth century. Lao K begins translating the story, which becomes the novel we are reading. But, as translator, how can Lao K separate fact from fiction, and what will her role be in the book's final chapter?
About the Author:
Kaitlin Solimine’s debut novel, Empire of Glass, was named a Finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and has been called a “gorgeous experimental work” by BookRiot. Raised in New England, Kaitlin has considered China a second home for almost two decades. While majoring in East Asian Studies at Harvard University, she was a Harvard-Yenching scholar and wrote and edited Let’s Go: China. She has received a Fulbright Creative Arts Fellowship, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarship, and the Dzanc Books/Disquiet International Literary Program award judged by Colson Whitehead. Her writing has been published in Guernica Magazine, National Geographic News, The Wall Street Journal, Kartika Review, China Daily, and more. She is co-founder of the academic media platform, Hippo Reads, and after spending two years in Singapore, resides in San Francisco with her husband and daughter where she was a 2016 SF Writers Grotto Fellow. She is associate producer of the childbirth documentary, These Are My Hours.
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