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SUMMARY:Miriam Pawel - California Dreams
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Miriam Pawel for a reading and signing of her new book California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the University of California—an epic story of one of the world’s elite public universities\, its sweeping social impact\, and hopeful lessons about endurance in troubled times. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n \nYour RSVP helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you for registering! \nDistinguished by its founding mission as an engine of upward mobility\, the University of California—a constitutionally independent public trust—is a great American experiment that has persevered through fraught battles over access\, funding\, and leadership. The University has been at the nexus of nearly every public policy debate and social movement since the Civil War\, from women’s rights to student protests\, from academic freedom to affirmative action\, shaping policies that reverberate throughout the United States. California Dreams narrates UC’s rise and resilience through the lens of those whose lives it has transformed-in particular\, five pioneering graduates whose diverse paths underscore why the University remains\, in the words of Berkeley graduate Joan Didion\, “California’s best idea of itself.” \nAt a time of staggering inequality and uncertainty\, as higher education faces unprecedented threats\, that role has never been more crucial. Drawing on extensive research in ten archives and dozens of interviews\, California Dreams weaves together the linked history of the school and state in all its drama\, significance\, and humanity; the result is a magisterial narrative of both a remarkable public institution of higher education\, and also California itself. \nMiriam Pawel is an award-winning reporter and editor who spent twenty-five years working for Newsday and the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation\, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a California Book Award Gold Medal and The Crusades of Cesar Chavez\, a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and the Winner of the California Book Award. She was recently an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow and a John Jacobs Fellow at the Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies.
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SUMMARY:Min Jin Lee - American Hagwon
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Min Jin Lee\, the National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko\, who returns with American Hagwon—a breathtaking contemporary epic\, by turns sweeping and intimate\, that reckons with ambition and moderation\, lust and loyalty\, personal dreams and familial duty. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \n“With her gift for wonderfully empathetic storytelling\, this is a profoundly generous and humane novel about duty\, family\, and the dream of a better life…. I was fully absorbed by the fates of the Koh family and\, as the novel worked its cumulative magic\, deeply moved by this masterful tale of sacrifice\, familial devotion\, and\, ultimately\, acceptance.” —Douglas Stuart\, author of John of John and Shuggie Bain\, winner of the Booker Prize \n \n“Min Jin Lee brings grand ambition\, fierce heart\, and the tenderest hope to a novel I didn’t want to end.” —Roxane Gay\, bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger \nIn schools and churches\, hotel rooms and nail salons\, law firms and fried-fish shops; in cramped\, dingy apartments and luxury\, gated communities\, the men\, women\, and children in American Hagwon struggle to find satisfaction and meaning in a world that seems to grow less forgiving with each passing year. Once comfortably middle class in Korea\, John and Helen Koh and their three children—Bo\, DH\, and Mido—find their lives upended\, first by a shocking betrayal by John’s oldest friend\, then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. \nDesperately striving to regain their footing\, they leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in Southern California—where new vistas of opportunity open up for the children as their parents\, strangers in a strange land\, must adjust to a new life in which their experience and education mean little\, and they set their sights on whatever it takes to provide for their children’s futures. The Kohs\, their friends\, relatives\, and even their foes move in and out of each other’s lives as they navigate new courses across the years\, always nursing the almost all-consuming faith that education will lead the next generation to success and security. \nIn American Hagwon\, Min Jin Lee has crafted an unforgettable\, panoramic novel where the smallest of gestures can have enormous repercussions\, where the bonds of family and of memory twist and fray but rarely break\, and where willful self-sacrifice—for the benefit of loved ones and even strangers—is a kind of prayer. \n \nMin Jin Lee is the author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko\, a finalist for the National Book Award\, runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, and a New York Times “100 Best Books of the Century.” She serves as the New York State Author Laureate from 2025 through 2027. She is the 2024 recipient of The Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence. Lee has received the Manhae Grand Prize for Literature\, the Bucheon Diaspora Literary Award\, and the Samsung Happiness for Tomorrow Award for Creativity from South Korea. She is the recipient of fellowships in Fiction from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute\, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Lee is an inductee of the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame and the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. She lives in Harlem with her family.
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