On July 24, 2019, we feature Vanessa Hua's award-winning novel, A River of Stars in which Scarlett and Daisy escape from the a Chinese maternity hotel and go on the lam in order to secure citizenship and independence.
A San Francisco Chronicle columnist and best-selling author, Hua will join the series' founder and author, Lisa D. Gray, in conversation about Hua's funny and thought-provoking novel, A River of Stars. The book, described as a “marvel” by O, The Oprah Magazine, follows two pregnant Chinese immigrant women on the lam from a maternity hotel in California. The Washington Post and NPR named A River of Stars on their Best Books of 2018 lists, while The Economist praised it as "delightful".
The July 24th discussion will touch on how Hua conceived of the story, what she's working on now, and the relevance of this story in the context of what's happening with immigrantion in the United States and beyond. Emerging writers Sara Campos, Maya Sisneros, and Blanca Torres also will read excerpts from their writings at the event.
About OVOSsf
Our Voices, Our Stories SF began in 2014 with 16 amazing writers and four engaging book chats one of which featured Natalie Bazile of Queen Sugar Fame and Eunetta Boone who recently became the first black woman showrunner on the Disney Channel with her stint on Raven's Home. We bring you high-quality authors eager to share and discuss their work.
The evening culminates in a book chat between Lisa D. Gray (the Founder and Curator of this landmark series), and one or more of the authors. The authors write across genres, so when you come, you hear everything from fiction to travel writing and poetry to memoir. These women's stories paint vivid pictures of what it's like to live in the world as a woman of color. They explore themes and topics everyone can relate to and understand.
To learn more about the lineup, go to https://www.ourvoicesourstoriessf.com.
About Vanessa
Vanessa is also the author of Deceit and Other Possibilities. Her honors include the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, and the Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Social Justice and Civil Rights Reporting. For two decades, she has been writing in journalism and fiction about Asia and the diaspora. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. A Bay Area native, she works at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
About Lisa
Lisa D. Gray is a writer, curator, and social justice warrior who loves to cook and sees possibilities waiting to burst free in bubbles blown into air. Her interests range from dancing (her first career goal: Rockette) to star gazing, and if an animal lived with her, it'd be a turtle. She writes about the things that intrigue and perplex her and does it with humor and insight. She earned an MFA from Mills College and completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and a fellowship at The Fine Arts Works Center. Her work appears in the As Us Literary Journal. Mission at Tenth and the anthology New Haven Noir for which she won an Edgar Award in 2018. She's a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto and a Fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. She is completing her first novel.
We encourage you to purchase the novel using the PURCHASE BOOKS link on our website. Books sales will also occur on site.
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A San Francisco Chronicle columnist and best-selling author, Hua will join the series' founder and author, Lisa D. Gray, in conversation about Hua's funny and thought-provoking novel, A River of Stars. The book, described as a “marvel” by O, The Oprah Magazine, follows two pregnant Chinese immigrant women on the lam from a maternity hotel in California. The Washington Post and NPR named A River of Stars on their Best Books of 2018 lists, while The Economist praised it as "delightful".
The July 24th discussion will touch on how Hua conceived of the story, what she's working on now, and the relevance of this story in the context of what's happening with immigrantion in the United States and beyond. Emerging writers Sara Campos, Maya Sisneros, and Blanca Torres also will read excerpts from their writings at the event.
About OVOSsf
Our Voices, Our Stories SF began in 2014 with 16 amazing writers and four engaging book chats one of which featured Natalie Bazile of Queen Sugar Fame and Eunetta Boone who recently became the first black woman showrunner on the Disney Channel with her stint on Raven's Home. We bring you high-quality authors eager to share and discuss their work.
The evening culminates in a book chat between Lisa D. Gray (the Founder and Curator of this landmark series), and one or more of the authors. The authors write across genres, so when you come, you hear everything from fiction to travel writing and poetry to memoir. These women's stories paint vivid pictures of what it's like to live in the world as a woman of color. They explore themes and topics everyone can relate to and understand.
To learn more about the lineup, go to https://www.ourvoicesourstoriessf.com.
About Vanessa
Vanessa is also the author of Deceit and Other Possibilities. Her honors include the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, and the Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Social Justice and Civil Rights Reporting. For two decades, she has been writing in journalism and fiction about Asia and the diaspora. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. A Bay Area native, she works at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
About Lisa
Lisa D. Gray is a writer, curator, and social justice warrior who loves to cook and sees possibilities waiting to burst free in bubbles blown into air. Her interests range from dancing (her first career goal: Rockette) to star gazing, and if an animal lived with her, it'd be a turtle. She writes about the things that intrigue and perplex her and does it with humor and insight. She earned an MFA from Mills College and completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and a fellowship at The Fine Arts Works Center. Her work appears in the As Us Literary Journal. Mission at Tenth and the anthology New Haven Noir for which she won an Edgar Award in 2018. She's a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto and a Fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. She is completing her first novel.
We encourage you to purchase the novel using the PURCHASE BOOKS link on our website. Books sales will also occur on site.
On July 24, 2019, we feature Vanessa Hua's award-winning novel, A River of Stars in which Scarlett and Daisy escape from the a Chinese maternity hotel and go on the lam in order to secure citizenship and independence.
A San Francisco Chronicle columnist and best-selling author, Hua will join the series' founder and author, Lisa D. Gray, in conversation about Hua's funny and thought-provoking novel, A River of Stars. The book, described as a “marvel” by O, The Oprah Magazine, follows two pregnant Chinese immigrant women on the lam from a maternity hotel in California. The Washington Post and NPR named A River of Stars on their Best Books of 2018 lists, while The Economist praised it as "delightful".
The July 24th discussion will touch on how Hua conceived of the story, what she's working on now, and the relevance of this story in the context of what's happening with immigrantion in the United States and beyond. Emerging writers Sara Campos, Maya Sisneros, and Blanca Torres also will read excerpts from their writings at the event.
About OVOSsf
Our Voices, Our Stories SF began in 2014 with 16 amazing writers and four engaging book chats one of which featured Natalie Bazile of Queen Sugar Fame and Eunetta Boone who recently became the first black woman showrunner on the Disney Channel with her stint on Raven's Home. We bring you high-quality authors eager to share and discuss their work.
The evening culminates in a book chat between Lisa D. Gray (the Founder and Curator of this landmark series), and one or more of the authors. The authors write across genres, so when you come, you hear everything from fiction to travel writing and poetry to memoir. These women's stories paint vivid pictures of what it's like to live in the world as a woman of color. They explore themes and topics everyone can relate to and understand.
To learn more about the lineup, go to https://www.ourvoicesourstoriessf.com.
About Vanessa
Vanessa is also the author of Deceit and Other Possibilities. Her honors include the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, and the Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Social Justice and Civil Rights Reporting. For two decades, she has been writing in journalism and fiction about Asia and the diaspora. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. A Bay Area native, she works at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
About Lisa
Lisa D. Gray is a writer, curator, and social justice warrior who loves to cook and sees possibilities waiting to burst free in bubbles blown into air. Her interests range from dancing (her first career goal: Rockette) to star gazing, and if an animal lived with her, it'd be a turtle. She writes about the things that intrigue and perplex her and does it with humor and insight. She earned an MFA from Mills College and completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and a fellowship at The Fine Arts Works Center. Her work appears in the As Us Literary Journal. Mission at Tenth and the anthology New Haven Noir for which she won an Edgar Award in 2018. She's a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto and a Fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. She is completing her first novel.
We encourage you to purchase the novel using the PURCHASE BOOKS link on our website. Books sales will also occur on site.
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A San Francisco Chronicle columnist and best-selling author, Hua will join the series' founder and author, Lisa D. Gray, in conversation about Hua's funny and thought-provoking novel, A River of Stars. The book, described as a “marvel” by O, The Oprah Magazine, follows two pregnant Chinese immigrant women on the lam from a maternity hotel in California. The Washington Post and NPR named A River of Stars on their Best Books of 2018 lists, while The Economist praised it as "delightful".
The July 24th discussion will touch on how Hua conceived of the story, what she's working on now, and the relevance of this story in the context of what's happening with immigrantion in the United States and beyond. Emerging writers Sara Campos, Maya Sisneros, and Blanca Torres also will read excerpts from their writings at the event.
About OVOSsf
Our Voices, Our Stories SF began in 2014 with 16 amazing writers and four engaging book chats one of which featured Natalie Bazile of Queen Sugar Fame and Eunetta Boone who recently became the first black woman showrunner on the Disney Channel with her stint on Raven's Home. We bring you high-quality authors eager to share and discuss their work.
The evening culminates in a book chat between Lisa D. Gray (the Founder and Curator of this landmark series), and one or more of the authors. The authors write across genres, so when you come, you hear everything from fiction to travel writing and poetry to memoir. These women's stories paint vivid pictures of what it's like to live in the world as a woman of color. They explore themes and topics everyone can relate to and understand.
To learn more about the lineup, go to https://www.ourvoicesourstoriessf.com.
About Vanessa
Vanessa is also the author of Deceit and Other Possibilities. Her honors include the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, and the Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Social Justice and Civil Rights Reporting. For two decades, she has been writing in journalism and fiction about Asia and the diaspora. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. A Bay Area native, she works at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
About Lisa
Lisa D. Gray is a writer, curator, and social justice warrior who loves to cook and sees possibilities waiting to burst free in bubbles blown into air. Her interests range from dancing (her first career goal: Rockette) to star gazing, and if an animal lived with her, it'd be a turtle. She writes about the things that intrigue and perplex her and does it with humor and insight. She earned an MFA from Mills College and completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and a fellowship at The Fine Arts Works Center. Her work appears in the As Us Literary Journal. Mission at Tenth and the anthology New Haven Noir for which she won an Edgar Award in 2018. She's a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto and a Fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. She is completing her first novel.
We encourage you to purchase the novel using the PURCHASE BOOKS link on our website. Books sales will also occur on site.
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