Grossmont College's 2010 Literary Arts Festival will feature internationally acclaimed poet, fiction writer, and Co-Director of SDSU?s MFA Program in Creative Writing, Marilyn Chin. Her forthcoming Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen (Norton 2009) will rock your literary world. Kirkus calls Chin?s novel-in-stories an "uproarious debut that lays bare the complicated generational relationships of Chinese American women." The raucous twin sisters in Chin?s book, Moonie and Mei Ling Wong, are known as the "double happiness"Chinese fast food delivery girls. Each day they load up a "crappy donkey-van" and deliver Americanized ("bad") Chinese food to homes throughout their southern California neighborhood. United in their desire to blossom into somebodies, the Wong girls fearlessly assert their intellect and sexuality, even as they come of age under the care of their dominating, cleaver-wielding grandmother from Hong Kong. They transform themselves from food delivery girls into accomplished women, but along the way they wrestle with the influence and continuity of their Chinese heritage.
Admission:??
Location:
Grossmont College
Griffin Gate
8800 Grossmont College Dr.
El Cajon, CA 92020-1765
Monday, April 19 - 12:30 PM
For more information, please visit: www.grossmont.edu
Admission:??
Location:
Grossmont College
Griffin Gate
8800 Grossmont College Dr.
El Cajon, CA 92020-1765
Monday, April 19 - 12:30 PM
For more information, please visit: www.grossmont.edu
