{"id":4793,"date":"2009-10-06T02:10:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T02:10:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-06T02:10:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T02:10:57","slug":"Award-winning-novelist-coming-to-UCSC","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=4793","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning novelist coming to UCSC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UCSC Center for Labor Studies<\/strong> and the Living Writers Series<\/strong> will join together to present a reading by award-winning novelist Monique Truong<\/strong>, Wednesday, October 7, at 7 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the UCSC campus.
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\nAdmission is free and the event is open to the public.
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Truong <\/strong>is the author of The Book of Salt<\/strong>, the fictional story of a gay Vietnamese cook who works for renowned American writer Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Paris during the 1920s and 30s.<\/p>\n

Her first novel<\/strong>, it received the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize, the Stonewall Book Award-Gittings Literature Award, and the Young Lions Fiction Award.
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\nUCSC history professor Dana Frank, director of the UCSC Center for Labor Studies, noted the significance of Truong\u2019s book and the author\u2019s upcoming appearance on campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cMonique Truong\u2019s pathbreaking novel The Book of Salt highlights the invisible labor behind the public work of intellectuals,"<\/em> said Frank. "The novel investigates the private lives of those who cook, clean, and provide emotional support, making possible the creativity and fame of famous writers.\u201d
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\u201cIn the United States, these workers are usually women and people of color,\u201d<\/em> she added. "Yet their labors usually disappear from our stories of literary history."
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Frank noted that Truong\u2019s UCSC appearance is also part of the Literature Department\u2019s Asian American Literary Series this fall. <\/strong>That series includes an appearance by famed author Maxine Hong Kingston on campus, November 18.<\/p>\n

\u201cTruong is a pioneering Vietnamese American novelist,\u201d<\/em> said Frank. \u201cIn inviting her, we are pleased to be acknowledging the Vietnamese community in the Bay Area, as well as supporting Asian American Studies at UCSC.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born in Saigon in 1968, Truong<\/strong> moved to the United States at the age of six, and went on to graduate from Yale University and the Columbia University School of Law.
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Trong <\/strong>is the author of numerous essays and works of short fiction, and her new book, Bitter in the Mouth, will be published by Random House in 2010. She is also co-editor of the anthology Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose, and her essay \u201cWelcome to America\u201d<\/strong> has been featured on National Public Radio.<\/p>\n

The Living Writers Reading Series is hosted by the Creative Writing Program of the UCSC Literature Department. (For a full lineup of the Fall 2009 series, go to: Living Writers Series).<\/p>\n

This event was additionally supported by a Diversity Fund grant from the Office of the EVC\/Provost.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, ihr@ucsc.edu, (831) 459-5655. <\/p>\n


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