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Friday, October 12 • 8:00pm - 9:45pm
Immigration and Community: Elaine Castillo & Shanthi Sekaran

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Co-sponsored by California Institute of Integral Studies

What has America's melting pot turned out to be? Tonight we look away from the news (children in cages, walls and camps), and examine how fiction helps us understand the complexities of immigration and community. Bay Area authors Elaine Castillo (America is Not the Heart) and Shanthi Sekaran (Lucky Boy) discuss and share their work, set variously in the Philippines, Mexico, Berkeley, and Milpitas. Moderated by Angie Chau (Quiet As They Come). $15 adv / $20 door
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Angie Chau

Angie Chau was born in Vietnam. She has also lived in Malaysia, Italy, Spain, Hawaii, and currently resides in California. She earned a BA in Southeast Asian Culture and Political Economy (ISF) from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master's degree in English with a Creative... Read More →

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Elaine Castillo

Elaine Castillo was born and raised in the Bay Area. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Comparative Literature. She is a Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation Fellow, and her writing can be found or is forthcoming from Freeman’s, Lit Hub, The... Read More →
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Shanthi Sekaran

Shanthi Sekaran is author of the novels The Prayer Room and Lucky Boy. She teaches creative writing at Mills College, and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon.com and the LA Review of Books. A California native... Read More →

Friday October 12, 2018 8:00pm - 9:45pm PDT
Swedish American Hall
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