Seriously Entertaining: Ava Chin on "Just One of Those Things"

Journalist and award-winning author Ava Chin who wrote MOTT STREET (2023) and EATING WILDLY (2014) recalled growing up in Queens longing for a relationship with her father, the “Prince of Chinatown,” and how her paternal grandfather reached through the film between ghost world and ours to share the story of her family and early Chinese-American life. From House of SpeakEasy's "Seriously Entertaining," February 2024. Visit the speaker's page here: avachin.com/

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It's rare, I think, to be as brilliant in live performance as on the written page -- but that's my experience of author Ava Chin's storytelling in both mediums. Even if you've not read "Mott Street," I think others will likewise enjoy this lively, fascinating, and entertaining tale of Chin's growing up as a fifth-generation Chinese-American New Yorker who, in her quest for a permanently absent father, discovered a wider network of rich family roots among which she ultimately found herself. Delivered with lessons for us all -- gung-gung, gung-gung, gung-gung...