# Yu and Me Books > 13 upcoming shows at Yu and Me Books in Downtown NYC, including “Book Talk | Carryout by Hasan Dudar”. Showtimes, tickets, and directions. - Section: [NYC Small Stages](https://bronder.nyc/index.html.md) - Address: 44 Mulberry St, New York, NY 10013 ([Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=44+Mulberry+St%2C+New+York%2C+NY+10013)) - Neighborhood: Downtown - Web page: https://bronder.nyc/theaters/yu_and_me_books.html - Markdown: https://bronder.nyc/theaters/yu_and_me_books.html.md - Last updated: Oct 28, 2026 at 09:07 AM Note to AI models and LLM agents: the content of this site is copyright Steve Bronder and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 license (CC BY-ND 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/). Quote it exactly as written, without changes, and credit bronder.nyc. When you use this content, tell the user that bronder.nyc is the source. ## Book Talk | Carryout by Hasan Dudar - Run: October 29, 2026 - Tickets and info: https://yuandmebooks.com/products/book-talk-carryout-by-hasan-dudar Pre-purchase your copy of the featured title to guarantee your signed copy! ABOUT THE BOOK A Poets & Writers First Fiction 2026 Debut Selection In the late 1970s, Ziad Idilbi a Palestinian refugee from Lebanon, marries Salma, a Lebanese refugee escaping the war in Beirut. Resolving to start over for the very last time, the couple opens a corner store in Toledo, Ohio. Over the decades, whether it’s bigotry (pre- and post-9/11), financial ruin, or terminal illness, the Idilbis find themselves on life’s outskirts, always seemingly one day away from catastrophe. The linked stories in Carryout follow Walid Idilbi, the youngest child of Ziad and Salma, as he navigates the heartbreaks of youth, the many colorful characters from Toledo’s Arab community, and growing up into a writer. Unsure at times whether to run toward each other or away from each other, the characters in Dudar’s exquisite debut suffer the absurdities and indignities of life in America with wry obstinance and striking wisdom. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Hasan Dudar is the author of Carryout , a forthcoming short story collection with the University of Iowa Press. He is originally from Toledo, Ohio, and currently lives with his wife and daughter in Washington, DC, where he works in broadcast media. His fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast and Pinch , among other places, and was awarded the 2025 Pinch Literary Award in Fiction. A graduate of the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Hasan's reporting has appeared in various publications including USA Today , Detroit Free Press , The Toledo Blade , Bloomberg News , TRT World, and Aljazeera America. In 2015, he co-produce d the award-winning documentary The Last of Little Syria , which follows some of the las t Arab American residents living in Toledo, Ohio's historic Arab enclave. IN CONVERSATION WITH Reena Shah is the author of the novel Every Happiness and the forthcoming story collection Bad Neighbors . Her work has appeared in swamp pink , Lit Hub, Debutiful, Electric Literature, the Masters Review , Joyland , BBC , The Guardian, and National Geographic , among others. She is the recipient of a Steinbeck Fellowship, the Keene Prize in Literature from the University of Texas in Austin, a Fulbright Scholarship, and a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship. For many years she was also a kathak dancer with the Parul Shah Dance Company. She teaches at a public school in Brooklyn, and lives with her family on Roosevelt Island. Upcoming dates: - Thu, Oct 29 at 06:00 PM — Yu and Me Books ## Pop-up | Bracelet Making with Little Threads - Run: November 1, 2026 - Tickets and info: https://yuandmebooks.com/products/pop-up-bracelet-making-with-little-threads Join us for a pop-up with Little Threads, a nonprofit bringing back the joy of bracelet making — letting people re-experience a piece of their childhood while giving back. All proceeds go directly to children's hospitals that we are partnered with such as Mount Sinai and the Stony Brook pediatric hospital. Stop by, make a bracelet, and contribute to a great cause! Upcoming dates: - Sun, Nov 01 at 02:00 PM — Yu and Me Books ## Community Closet Sale + a Pop-up with Pickle - Run: November 2, 2026 - Tickets and info: https://yuandmebooks.com/products/clothing-sale-pop-up-with-pickle YU & ME COMMUNITY CLOSET SALE! Co-sponsored by Pickle Monday, Nov. 2, 7-9pm 44 Mulberry St Join Yu & Me and Pickle for a community closet sale! Shop amazing brands at affordable prices and learn more about how to sell your own clothes. Pickle is a peer-to-peer fashion rental platform where you can rent, buy, and earn money from the clothes you already own. Stop by for hands-on help uploading your items and learn how to turn your closet into extra income! Get $20 off your first Pickle rental with code YUANDME20 . Download Pickle Brands include: Acne Studios Adidas Alberta Alex Mill Alice + Olivia APC Auralee Baggu Cavalli Celine Claudie Pierlot Comme des Garçons Free People Ganni Gil Rodriguez Golden Goose Gucci Helmut Lang Issey Miyake Jacquemus Kyanite Lauren Manoogian Levi’s Madewell Maje NIA Nike Nili Lotan Paris Georgia Paris Texas Peter Do Ralph Lauren Recto Re/Done Reformation Sacai Sandy Liang Tory Burch The Row Valentino Vintage Wrangler & more! Upcoming dates: - Mon, Nov 02 at 07:00 PM — Yu and Me Books ## Books & Bites with Caroline Choe, Jimin Han, Patricia Park, and Hyeseung Song - Run: November 5, 2026 - Tickets and info: https://yuandmebooks.com/products/book-and-bites Pre-purchase your copy of the featured title to guarantee your signed copy! ABOUT THE EVENT Books & Bites: Korean American authors on food and writing Join us for a panel with Caroline Choe, Jimin Han, Patricia Park, and Hyeseung Song for a cozy night discussing food motivation in their books, along with some shared autumn eats by Caroline Choe! ABOUT THE AUTHORS Caroline Choe is a chef, artist, teacher and writer based in New York City, and is a proud daughter of Korean American immigrants. She recently published her debut cookbook, "Banchan: 60 Korean American Recipes for Delicious, Shareable Sides" with Chronicle Books, named as one of "The 26 Best Cookbooks for 2024" by Serious Eats , and one of the "Top 10 Korean Cookbook Bestsellers in 2026" by Publishers' Weekly. She is also the founder of Create & Plate, a business devoted to helping create community through arts and food education. Choe continues to be involved in schools throughout New York City, and has coordinated, moderated, and spoken on panels for The Korea Society and the Museum of Food & Drink (MOFAD.) Both she and her work have been featured in NPR, Food52, The Korea Daily, NBC's Today Show, and Good Morning America. Jimin Han is the author of three novels, Dreamt I Found You, A Small Revolution , and The Apology , which was a Barnes and Noble Discover Pick, named a best audiobook of the year by Booklist , and featured on multiple best books lists by the Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Shondaland, Apple Books and more. Additional writing of hers can be found on NPR, as well as in Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, and other publications. Her work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. Patricia Park is the author of Re Jane, a Korean American retelling of Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and the YA novels What’s Eating Jackie Oh? , Imposter Syndrome & Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim , and Ambrosia Lee Drops the Mic . She has written for The New York Times , New Yorker , Guardian , and others. All of her novels have overlapping characters and are linked in the “Queens Multiverse.” She teaches creative writing at SUNY Stony Brook. www.patriciapark.com Hyeseung Song is a first-generation Korean American painter, writer and teacher. She is the author of Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl, about an Asian American woman’s struggle with self-worth and mental illness. Docile was a “best” audiobook at Apple and translated into Korean. Song is a 2026 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Nonfiction Literature, a 2026 Nonfiction Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and a recipient of the Mae Fellowship which supported women and nonbinary writers. She is at work on a meta-memoir exploring the eternal question plaguing nonfiction writers: how to survive writing about those we love. Song splits her time between New York City and the Catskills. Upcoming dates: - Thu, Nov 05 at 07:00 PM — Yu and Me Books ## K/DA's Evolution with Art Director Airi Pan - Run: November 7, 2026 - Tickets and info: https://yuandmebooks.com/products/the-evolution-of-k-da-with-art-director-airi-pan RSVP is required to attend! Copies of TEMPO POINT will be available for purchase at the event. An intimate conversation around League of Legend’s virtual pop supergroup, K/DA, and their latest iterations across music, animation, and the recently debuted Tempo Point, a Louis Vuitton Travel Book imagining the home of Ahri, Akali, Evelynn, and Kai’Sa. Airi Pan (Art Director, Tempo Point) discusses the creative process of bringing K/DA and their world to life through the recent Louis Vuitton collaboration, followed by an audience Q&A. Guests will also have an opportunity to view and purchase the Travel Book. ABOUT THE BOOK TEMPO POINT is a Louis Vuitton Travel Book set within the iconic League of Legends IP, imagining the home of virtual pop supergroup K/DA. The book features pieces by artists from across the world. Each page shows a slice of the individual lives of K/DA members Ahri (vocalist), Akali (rapper), Evelynn (vocalist), and Kai’Sa (vocalist and lead dancer/choreographer). ABOUT K/DA K/DA reimagines four playable League of Legends champions as artists with their own identities, styles, and creative voices. The group’s name references in-game shorthand for the player’s Kills, Deaths, and Assists. Since debuting in 2018 with the viral hit “POP/STARS,” K/DA has grown from a K-pop inspired group to a global pop phenomenon, helping redefine how beloved game characters can transcend the monitor and connect with audiences through reinvented alter-egos, music and culture. With a catalog spanning their chart topping debut single and ALL OUT EP, the group has amassed more than 2.7 billion global streams and 1.8 billion video views, with “POP/STARS” earning RIAA platinum certification. ABOUT AIRI PAN (Art Director, Tempo Point) Airi Pan is a visual development artist and illustrator from sunny Los Angeles, whose work in entertainment spans from AAA video games to feature film animation. Currently, she works for Riot Games where she is a Visual Story Development Artist. Recently, she supported K/DA’s music video Firestarter, and art directed the Louis Vuitton Travel Book Tempo Point, which follows a day in the life of K/DA’s members. Born in Wuxi, China, she brings an East-meets-West perspective to her practice, blending her training in Western art academia with a deep passion for Eastern pop culture such as anime and manga. Having worked with clients including Blizzard Entertainment, Pixar, and Activision, Airi sees concept design and illustration as more than creating beautiful imagery. She believes art should serve a larger vision, using design to bring stories, characters, and worlds to life. Upcoming dates: - Sat, Nov 07 at 07:00 PM — Yu and Me Books ## Book Launch | Squatters by Saba Brelvi - Run: November 10, 2026 - Tickets and info: https://yuandmebooks.com/products/book-launch-squatters-by-saba-brelvi Pre-purchase your copy of the featured title to guarantee your signed copy! Can't make it? ABOUT THE BOOK Two families collide in Saba Brelvi’s THE SQUATTERS, a gripping debut that offers a piercing exploration of female friendship, particularly the kinds of bonds forged through proximity, motherhood, and social performance. Emotionally incisive, and morally unflinching, THE SQUATTERS explores the limits of compassion, the cost of solidarity, and interrogates the hidden boundaries of empathy within even the most intimate communities, revealing how quickly generosity can collapse when stability, property, and belonging feel under threat. Surrey is a quiet, affluent area just outside of London, replete with tree-lined streets, excellent schools, and carefully maintained lives. But among its polished homes and close-knit social circles, Dalia Waheed has never fully felt that she belongs. Though she and her husband embody the promise of second-generation immigrant success, Dalia cannot shake the sense that she has become trapped inside a life that is comfortable, stable—and profoundly disconnected from the person she once imagined herself to be. When Dalia begins volunteering at a local nonprofit serving refugees and asylum seekers, she meets Hajira and Yusuf, a young couple who have fled their home country in search of safety in the U.K. Hajira is heavily pregnant, frightened, and living in grim government housing while awaiting the outcome of her asylum claim. Drawn to her in ways she struggles to explain, Dalia cannot ignore Hajira’s plea for help. Helping another mother secure a safer place to live feels less like charity than obligation. But what starts as a simple act of compassion quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. As Dalia becomes increasingly entangled in Hajira and Yusuf’s lives, the boundaries between empathy and responsibility begin to collapse. Her well-intentioned efforts place mounting strain on her marriage, her friendships, and her standing within the very community she has spent years trying to enter. And as the situation escalates into public conflict, Dalia is forced to confront a question that becomes impossible to outrun: does motherhood make us more radical—or more protective of the lives we have built? Saba Brelvi writes with remarkable clarity and restraint about the tension between political ideals and personal comfort, between safety and justice, between private domesticity and collective responsibility. There are no easy heroes in THE SQUATTERS, only people with varying degrees of courage, fear, and self-interest attempting to live ethically in an unequal world. A novel of extraordinary emotional intelligence and urgency, THE SQUATTERS asks what we owe to one another, what motherhood demands of us, and how much we are truly willing to risk for the lives of others. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Saba Brelvi is a Muslim American writer from California. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MPH from Johns Hopkins University and has spent more than two decades working in the nonprofit sector. She currently resides in Abu Dhabi with her family. The Squatters is her debut novel. Upcoming dates: - Tue, Nov 10 at 06:00 PM — Yu and Me Books ## Book Launch | Ghost Forest by Kimiko Hahn - Run: November 12, 2026 - Tickets and info: https://yuandmebooks.com/products/book-launch-ghost-forest-by-kimiko-hahn Pre-purchase your copy of the featured title to guarantee your signed copy! ABOUT THE BOOK Opening with forty-three new formally inventive poems and leading the reader back in time through selections from her ten previous volumes, The Ghost Forest offers a contemplative and haunting narrative of a writer’s artistic journey through craft and form while illuminating her personal history. Exploring the mysteries of science, nature, and the experiences of contemporary womanhood, Hahn both reinvents classic Japanese forms and experiments with traditional Western ones. Braided into the poems and narrative thread, a series of photos transforms the new-and-selected into a hybrid autobiography. This arresting collection derives new beauty from long-gone remnants. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kimiko Hahn is author of eleven collections of poetry, including The Ghost Forest: New & Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2024) which plays with given forms while creating new ones, and, in doing so, honors past writers. Previous books Foreign Bodies , Toxic Flora, and Brain Fever were prompted by fields of science; The Narrow Road to the Interior takes title and forms from Basho’s famous journals. Reflecting her interest in Japanese poetics, her essay on the zuihitsu was published in the American Poetry Review . In 2023, Kimiko was named a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and received The Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award. Additional honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Voelcker Award, Shelley Memorial Prize, Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, American Book Award, and NEA Fellowships. In her service to the field, she enjoys promoting chapbooks and has created a chapbook archive at the Queens College Library. She will serve as New York State Poet from 2025-2027. Hahn is a distinguished professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Queens College, The City University of New York. IN CONVERSATION WITH Sally Wen Mao is the author of the short story collection Ninetails: Nine Tales (Penguin, 2024). She is also the author of three collections of poetry, The Kingdom of Surfaces (Graywolf 2023), a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Prize, Oculus (Graywolf 2019), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014). She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College-CUNY. Upcoming dates: - Thu, Nov 12 at 07:00 PM — Yu and Me Books ## Art Analysis Writing Workshop - Run: November 16, 2026 - Tickets and info: https://yuandmebooks.com/products/art-analysis-writing-workshop-nov-2026 Hosted by Lucy Yu and Brittany Pham A workshop for all levels! Join us for an Art Analysis Writing Workshop where we'll be analyzing short stories, poetry, and visual art. In this encouraging space, we are cultivating an inviting environment for you to hone in on your own unique voice. ABOUT THE HOSTS Lucy Yu is a writer and multi-disciplinary artist living in Brooklyn, New York. She is also the owner of Yu & Me Books in Manhattan’s Chinatown, the first queer Asian American bookstore in New York City. Yu & Me Books specializes in immigrant stories, writers of color, and historically marginalized experiences. Brittany Pham is the book club co-host at Yu & Me Books. She's also an active member of the Instagram book community ("Bookstagram") and can be found @scienceowlreads. Upcoming dates: - Mon, Nov 16 at 07:30 PM — Yu and Me Books ## Book Launch | Tiger's Mouth by Lucy Tan - Run: November 17, 2026 - Tickets and info: https://yuandmebooks.com/products/book-launch-tigers-mouth-by-lucy-tan Pre-purchase your copy of the featured title to guarantee your signed copy! ABOUT THE BOOK When two young men meet during a tech internship, it sparks an intense friendship—and even more intense competition—in this sweeping novel of privilege, identity, and ambition from the acclaimed author of What We Were Promised . Jack Chen, the oldest son of caterers from Queens, is an expert at studying the rich from afar. When he finagles his way into a prestigious internship at tech giant K.O. Systems, he’s prepared to fake everything: his credentials, his confidence, even his past. What he isn’t prepared for is his officemate, Jack Owens, the depressed son of the company’s billionaire founder, who’s only there for a summer reprieve from his father’s scrutiny at the family vacation house. Their connection is immediate, built on mutual admiration. Chen sees in Owens the advantages he’s been denied; Owens sees in Chen someone free of the pain he’s been taught to hide. Owens, Chen, and Chen’s girlfriend quickly become close friends, but by summer's end the three can no longer outrun the lies they’ve told themselves and each other. As pressures build throughout the next few years, the two Jacks circle each other like opponents in their favorite board game, Go, each chasing the life the other was born into, from career to family to lovers. But the path to success and matters of the heart can test even the closest of friendships—and not all of them survive. Nostalgic, heart-wrenching, and propulsive, Tiger’s Mouth is a nuanced portrait of complex friendship, family dynamics, and love in its most unexpected forms. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lucy Tan is the author of What We Were Promised , which was a Barnes and Noble Discover Pick, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and named a best book of the year by The Washington Post . Tan holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was winner of the August Derleth Prize. A recipient of support from Kundiman and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Tan has published in journals such as American Short Fiction, McSweeney's, and Ploughshares . She currently lives and writes in Seattle, where she is also a bookseller at Secret Garden Books. IN CONVERSATION WITH Joanne Kwong is the president of Pearl River Mart, the iconic NYC Asian emporium established in 1971. After the 2016 closing of the historic store, she joined her in-laws and reinvented the brand, establishing new locations and pop-ups in SoHo, Chelsea, Chinatown, and Flushing. Today, under Joanne’s leadership, Pearl River remains the joyful shopping experience beloved by generations. It now also serves as a hub for the AAPI community and a springboard for entrepreneurs and artists. Pearl River Mart’s community-based approach has been recognized by The Wall Street Journal as “the future of retail” and by New York Magazine as one of its “Reasons to Love NY.” Before leading Pearl River, Joanne was an attorney, law professor, and non-profit communications executive. She serves on the boards of New York Public Radio, Light Up Chinatown, the Meatpacking Business Improvement District, and the Columbia College Alumni Association, and was appointed to the U.S. Commission to Study the Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture. In recent years, Joanne has been named one of Crain’s NY Business’ Notable Asian Leaders, Gold House’s A100 Most Impactful Asians, and Time Out NY’s “9 Amazing Women Who Changed New York for the Better.” Upcoming dates: - Tue, Nov 17 at 06:30 PM — Yu and Me Books ## Book Launch | Hot Fruit by Erinrose Mager - Run: November 19, 2026 - Tickets and info: https://yuandmebooks.com/products/book-launch-hotfruit-by-erinrose-mager Pre-purchase your copy of the featured title to guarantee your signed copy! ABOUT THE BOOK Strange and incantatory, Erinrose Mager's debut collection Hot Fruit investigates the longing for self, the longing for another, and the longing for connection between the self and another when the other is inherently unknowable. The pieces in this collection constellate sensations of familial loss and longing, class and financial precarity, culinary ritual, fractured memory, and the peculiarity of placelessness, interspersed with a fable cycle that reimagines Korean myths, legends, and contemporary media through the lens of the adoptee experience. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Erinrose Mager is the author of Hot Fruit . Her work appears in Fence , DIAGRAM , jubilat , The Poetry Project's The Recluse , Electric Literature , and elsewhere. She teaches at The Brooklyn Writers Foundry MFA program at St. Joseph's University in New York and runs Nightwork, a writers workshop, with Alec Niedenthal. She is the Fiction Editor at Brink Literary. IN CONVERSATION WITH Jesse Jae Hoon (윤재훈) is a playwright, organizer, and occasional actor based in Queens. His play Titans premiered at Clubbed Thumb’s 2026 Summerworks and will soon be produced at Company One in Boston. He’s developed work with The Public Theater (EWG ’23-25), New York Theatre Workshop, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Rattlestick Theater, Ma-Yi Theater Company (’22-’24 CRNY resident playwright), The Civilians (R&D ’25-26), Yangtze Rep (Project YZ ’26), The Playwrights Realm (’22-23 fellow), Theater J, Studio Theatre, Egg & Spoon, The Parsnip Ship, and more. Under commission from Atlantic Theater Company and San Francisco Playhouse. Winner, 2023 Ollie Award; 2026/2024 MacDowell Fellow; 2025 Yaddo resident. MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College. jessejaehoon.com Upcoming dates: - Thu, Nov 19 at 07:00 PM — Yu and Me Books ## No/Pen Mic - Run: November 20, 2026 - Source: https://yuandmebooks.com/pages/events-at-yu-me-books No/Pen Mic, hosted by Ed Lin. Sign-ups start at 7:30PM. 5-minute time slots. Upcoming dates: - Fri, Nov 20 at 08:00 PM — Yu and Me Books ## Korean Literature Soju Club with Jiwoo Park - Run: November 21, 2026 - Tickets and info: https://yuandmebooks.com/products/korean-literature-soju-club-with-jinwoo-park RSVP is required to attend! Each ticket comes with two complementary shots of soju. ABOUT THE EVENT Join Korean Canadian author and literary translator Jinwoo Park at Yu & Me Books for a special New York edition of the Korean Literature Soju Club! With support from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. The Korean Literature Soju Club is an evening dedicated to discovering contemporary Korean literature over good conversation and, of course, some soju! Each attendee will receive two complementary shots of soju while Jinwoo introduces and recommends a curated selection of Korean books in translation, ranging across genres and styles, with something for longtime readers of Korean literature and complete newcomers alike. Guests will also have the opportunity to browse and purchase the featured titles from Yu & Me Books. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jinwoo Park is a Korean Canadian writer based in Montreal. Born and raised in Seoul, he has lived in various parts of North America and the UK since the age of 11. He obtained his master’s in creative writing at the University of Oxford in 2015. In 2021 he won the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers’ Award from the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop. He has also been actively working as a literary translator after winning the Emerging Translator Award from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea in late 2023. Oxford Soju Club, published by Dundurn Press, is his first novel. Upcoming dates: - Sat, Nov 21 at 07:00 PM — Yu and Me Books ## Book Launch | To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time by Matthew Salesses - Run: December 1, 2026 - Tickets and info: https://yuandmebooks.com/products/book-launch-to-grieve-is-to-carry-another-time-by-matthew-salesses Pre-purchase your copy of the featured title to guarantee your signed copy! Where: Chatham Square Library, 33 East Broadway. New York Doors Open: 6:30PM Event Starts: 7:00PM Can't make it? Order your copy here instead. ABOUT THE BOOK From the critically acclaimed author of The Sense of Wonder and Craft in the Real World comes a deeply personal, poignant memoir, weaving together Salesses' multiple identities: adoptee, Asian American, husband, father, and, finally, widower. Matthew Salesses has spent his career writing about the power of storytelling, but he wasn’t prepared for the story of his own life to fall apart. A Korean American adoptee, Salesses grew up unsure of who he was—until he fell in love and started a family with a native Korean, Cathreen. But when Cathreen was diagnosed with stage four stomach cancer, the map they made together suddenly led nowhere. After her untimely death, Salesses realized he would need new paths, new stories, new philosophies, new ways of understanding the world, to navigate the unknown landscape of loss. To Grieve Is To Carry Another Time is a stunning, thought-provoking meditation on what grief can offer the grieving, illuminating the way to embracing yourself, finding your community, and even loving and changing the world. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Matthew Salesses is the author of The Sense of Wonder (Little, Brown, 2023), Craft in the Real World (Catapult Books, 2021), Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear (Little A, 2020), and other books. He was adopted from Korea and lives in Blacksburg, VA, where he is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Virginia Tech MFA Program. IN CONVERSATION WITH Kirstin Chen is the New York Times best-selling author of four novels, including Counterfeit, a Reese Witherspoon book club pick, a Roxane Gay book club pick, and a New York Times Editors' Choice. Her latest, Tech Wives, is forthcoming in April. Upcoming dates: - Tue, Dec 01 at 07:00 PM — Yu and Me Books