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Join Priyanka Champaneri, author of "The City of Good Death," in conversation with Tom Lin

  • Bel Canto Books 2122 East 4th Street Long Beach, CA, 90814 United States (map)

Join Priyanka Champaneri for an engaging virtual conversation hosted by Bel Canto Books with author Tom Lin of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu. We’re so excited to continue celebrating the paperback release of Priyanka’s debut novel, The City of Good Death, which won our 2018 New Immigrant Writing Prize!

When: Thursday, July 14 at 5:00 pm PST (8:00pm EST)
Where:
Virtual, via Zoom


Participants:
Priyanka Champaneri received her MFA in creative writing from George Mason University and has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts numerous times. Her debut novel, The City of Good Death, won the 2018 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and was recently shortlisted for the 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

Tom Lin was born in China and immigrated to the United States when he was four. A graduate of Pomona College, he is currently in the PhD program at the University of California, Davis. His first novel, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and is a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions award.