Jenny Zhang

Series

Mayhem

Where

The Wheeler Centre

When

Monday, 14 May 2018, 06:15pm - 07:15pm

Event Status

Past event

Dunham – the real Dunham – wanted Zhang to write the first book published by her new Random House imprint. The result, 2017’s Sour Heart, is a collection of short stories about Chinese-American girls and young women growing up in New York – the daughters of artists who fled the chaos of Mao’s China, only to wind up struggling to survive in a new country. Her stories traverse generations and continents, from public school in Queens to the streets of Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution.

To Zhang, candid and subversive humour is an important ingredient in writing about marginalised groups. Women and people of colour, she explains, must have the opportunity to tell stories that deal not only with struggle, but with absurdity and joy. Join Zhang for a bittersweet conversation at the Wheeler Centre in May, hosted by Brodie Lancaster.

Metropolis Books will be our bookseller at this event.

Featuring

Jenny Zhang

Brodie Lancaster

Featuring

Jenny Zhang

Jenny Zhang is the author of the short story collection, Sour Heart, and the poetry collection, Dear Jenny, We Are All Find. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, N+1, Harper’s, Poetry, Buzzfeed, New York, and Rookie. She holds degrees from Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Wor... Read more

Brodie Lancaster

Brodie Lancaster is an author and essayist from Melbourne. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Vogue Australia, the Guardian and New York magazine. Her first book, the pop culture memoir No Way! Okay, Fine, was published by Hachette in 2017. She co-hosts See Also, a w... Read more

@brodielancaster

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