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Best Nonfiction Book Award
MOTT STREET, an American Library Association (ALA) Notable book of 2024, wins the 2024 CALA Best Book Award for Adult Nonfiction! It shares the honor with Fae Myenne Eng’s searing memoir ORPHAN BACHELORS. Ava and the whole team feel so much gratitude for the Chinese American Librarians Association and the ALA for showing MOTT STREET…
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New in Paperback!
Look what comes out April 23, 2024! This warm and inviting illustration of Mott Street is reminiscent of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Angela’s Ashes. The handwriting-style font, which was used on the hardcover, works splendidly here too (Note: it’s the same font on the cover of Celeste Ng’s Our Missing Hearts, a book…
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And the reviews are…truly splendid!
We are a month shy of pub date for Mott Street (April 25th!), but already the reviews are coming in strong. In starred reviews, Publisher’s Weekly called it “Stunning,” and Kirkus Reviews described it as “Elegantly written…a lively memoir that…helps us understand the troubled history of our nation.”
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Winter Book & Author Fest
Penguin Random House + Library Journal introduce next season’s newest books at virtual book festival I’m thrilled to take part in the PRH + Library Journal book festival tomorrow, Thursday, Dec. 8th, 2022. They have a stellar line up, including keynote speaker Joy Harjo, and some of my favorite writers like Gina Apostol and Victor…
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Eating Wildly
Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love, and the Perfect Meal (S&S, 2014) reveals how foraging and the DIY-food movement helped Ava Chin to heal up from the disappointments of an estranged relationship with her father, and taught her important lessons in self-reliance. After the loss of a beloved family member, she immerses herself in urban…