History and Healing: A Celebration of AANHPI Heritage Month
Wed, Apr 30
|SFPL Koret Auditorium
Join Litquake and Heyday Books for a very special conversation that celebrates Asian American history while also offering hope and healing for our current moment
Time & Location
Apr 30, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
SFPL Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA
About The Event
Co-presented with Heyday Books
Join Litquake and Heyday Books at the San Francisco Public Library as we kick off Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a very special conversation that celebrates AAPI history while also offering hope and healing for our current moment.
Authors Karen Fang and Satsuki Ina have brought to life remarkable true stories from twentieth-century Asian American history. In her memoir The Poet and the Silk Girl, Ina pieces together secret letters, diary entries, photographs, and haiku to craft the love story of her parents, who were newlyweds when incarcerated at Tule Lake and other prison camps during WWII. In Background Artist, Fang reclaims the overlooked story of Tyrus Wong, a Chinese immigrant who became an accomplished muralist, Hallmark card designer, and artist for Warner Brothers and Disney studios—despite frequent hostilities and restrictions and without receiving proper credit.
The echoes of historical injustices still reverberate today, so…