Harry Middleton Lectureship Presents Chang-Rae Lee
Channel: TheLBJLibrary
Date: 2022-02-24

This program is presented in partnership with the Texas Book Festival.
 
About the speakers:
Chang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, as well as My Year Abroad, On Such a Full Sea, A Gesture Life, Aloft, and The Surrendered, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A 2021 winner of the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Lee teaches writing at Stanford University.

Lois Kim serves as Texas Book Festival’s chief executive, responsible for managing staff, programs, operations, external relations, and resource development. An immigrant from Seoul, Korea, she holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the Book Festival, Kim served as the associate director of University Extension at UT Austin, where she managed student and academic affairs for college credit students.

About the book:
My Year Abroad (2021) is an exuberant, provocative story about a young American life transformed by an unusual Asian adventure. Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across Asia, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to talented protégé and pulled into a series of ever more extreme and eye-opening experiences that transform his view of the world, of Pong, and of himself.

Book sales:
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