Tuesday Noon with Jade Chang
- Hampton Room, 1030 Columbia Avenue , Claremont
"The Wangs vs. the World" is a riches to rags story for our time. At its center are the fierce and funny Wangs—a Chinese American family who are down on their luck like never before. Their solution? A road trip in the great Kerouacian tradition. As they travel coast to coast, the Wangs take on art and assimilation, love and comedy. It’s messy and hilarious splendor. Jade Chang is the witty writer behind this sometimes-farcical family. She shares her perspective on writing and exploring the (Asian) American Dream in literature.
Chang has covered arts and culture as a journalist and editor. She is the recipient of a Sundance Fellowship for Arts Journalism, the AIGA/Winterhouse Award for Design Criticism, and the James D. Houston Memorial scholarship from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. "The Wangs vs. the World" is her debut novel. She lives in Los Angeles.
Event Info:
February 28th
12:15 pm- 1:30 pm
Hampton Room
1030 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711 United States
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Making its home at Scripps College in Claremont, California, Scripps Presents is committed to hosting eye-opening, mind-bending, genre-defying tête-à-têtes with iconic and emerging thinkers and doers, writers and performers, whose passion and perspective are changing the way we see the world.