AAWW and Yu & Me Books Present: Welcome Me to the Kingdom with Mai Nardone and C Pam Zhang
AAWW and Yu & Me Books Present: Welcome Me to the Kingdom with Mai Nardone and C Pam Zhang

An immersive debut set across the temples, slums, and gated estates of late-twentieth century Bangkok, telling the story of three families striving to control their destinies in a merciless, sometimes brutally violent, metropolis.

Mai Nardone is a Thai and American writer whose fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, Granta, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He lives in Bangkok. Welcome Me to the Kingdom is his first book.

C Pam Zhang is the author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold and the forthcoming Land of Milk and Honey. She is the winner of the Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award and the Asian/Pacific Award for Literature, a Booker Prize nominee, and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the National Book Critics’ John Leonard Prize. Zhang’s writing appears in Best American Short Stories, The Cut, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree and a current New York Public Library Cullman Fellow.

AAWW and Yu & Me Books Present: Welcome Me to the Kingdom with Mai Nardone and C Pam Zhang

Wednesday, February 15, 2023
6:00 PM
$0.00


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