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PATRICIA PARK
Re Jane
Tuesday, May 12 at 7 PM

Patricia Park will read from her debut novel, a fresh, contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre, featuring Jane Re - a half-Korean, half-American orphan from Flushing, Queens.

"A fine writer with an eye for the effects of class and ethnic identity, a sense of humor, and a compassionate view of human weakness." - Kirkus Reviews

THUPTEN JINPA
The Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives
Thursday, May 14 at 7 PM

Meet this highly acclaimed longtime English translator of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who shows us how we fear compassion, and how being compassionate can bring us greater health and happiness. His new book is, according to Jon Kabat-Zinn (Full Catastrophe Living),"...the bravest, clearest, and most engaging book I know on why we need to cultivate compassion, and on how to bring it more widely and deeply into our lives and into the world."

CELESTE NG
Everything I Never Told You
Monday, May 18 at 7 PM

We are pleased to welcome Celeste Ng, who will read from her exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio.

"If we know this story, we haven't seen it yet in American fiction, not until now... Deep, heartfelt." - The New York Times Book Review

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