Literature, Film, Drama and Music Contingent (LFDMC) - Honoring Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

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05-01-2022
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

UUCB’s LFDMC will honor Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a discussion of Julie Otsuka’s books: When The Emperor Was Divine; The Buddha In The Attic and, her latest, The Swimmers. (You need not have read them all!). Beth Jerde will be facilitating this wonderful discussion.

Links to the interviews with Julie Otsuka are below. Even if you don’t have time to read the books, please listen to these great interviews.

https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2022/02/22/1082303106/fresh-air-for-feb-22-2022-novelist-julie-otsuka

https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/interviews/inching-toward-personal-conversation-julie-otsuka-renee-h-shea

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