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True Story, our Non-Fiction Book Club, meets at Dungeon's Gate on 3rd Thursdays at 6pm (right before our OG Readers at The Gate SFF Book Club)--join us!
Our next meeting is Thursday, July 16, at 6pm at Dungeon's Gate, when we'll be discussing Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin. You can pick up a copy at Dungeon's Gate--it's always 20% off our current book club picks!
Prefer to listen? Snag the audiobook: libro.fm/audiobooks/9781668632390-everything-i-learned-i-learned-in-a-chinese-restaurant
Prefer the ebook? bookshop.org/p/books/everything-i-learned-i-learned-in-a-chinese-restaurant-a-memoir-curtis-chin/b0fb6e883a668046?ean=9780316507851&digital=t
You can find out more about how our book clubs work, what we're reading, and what we've read over the years: dungeonsgate.com/readers-at-the-gate/
At Book Club we discuss the current read and vote on the read for the next month. We'd love for you to join us!
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What's this book about?
This poignant memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’s Detroit.
“Vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt” —Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers
Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone—from the city’s first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples—could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned to embrace his identity as a gay ABC, or American-born Chinese; where he navigated the divided city’s spiraling misfortunes; and where—between helpings of almond boneless chicken, sweet-and-sour pork, and some of his own, less-savory culinary concoctions—he realized just how much he had to offer to the world, to his beloved family, and to himself.
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