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“China Dolls” by Lisa See – Bay Area Book Tour
June 10, 2014 - June 12, 2014
New York Times-bestselling author Lisa See will be in the Bay Area from June 10-12 to share her new book China Dolls. Here is a list of her scheduled Bay Area events:
Kepler’s Bookstore
Talk, Q&A and Signing – June 10th at 7:30 PM
1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 94025
Book Passage
Luncheon – June 11th at 12:00 PM
51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA 94925
For ticket reservations, call (415) 927-0960
Book Shop Santa Cruz
Talk, Q&A and Signing – June 11th at 7:30 PM
1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Towne Center Books
Tea, Talk, Q&A and Reading – June 12th at 11:00 AM
555 Main St., Pleasanton, CA 94566
For ticket reservations, call (925)-846-8826
San Francisco Public Library
Talk, Q&A and Signing – June 12th at 6:30 PM
100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA 94102
About China Dolls
It’s 1938 in San Francisco: a world’s fair is preparing to open on Treasure Island, a war is brewing overseas, and the city is alive with possibilities. Grace, Helen, and Ruby, three young women from very different backgrounds, meet by chance at the exclusive and glamorous Forbidden City nightclub.
More info at lisasee.com
About Lisa See
Lisa See was born in Paris but grew up in Los Angeles. She lived with her mother, but spent a lot of time with her father’s family in Chinatown. Her first book, On Gold Mountain: The One Hundred Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family (1995), was a national bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book. The book traces the journey of Lisa’s great-grandfather, Fong See, who overcame obstacles at every step to become the 100-year-old godfather of Los Angeles’s Chinatown and the patriarch of a sprawling family.
While collecting the details for On Gold Mountain, she developed the idea for her first novel, Flower Net (1997), which was a national bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and on the Los Angeles Times Best Books List for 1997. Flower Net was also nominated for an Edgar award for best first novel. This was followed by two more mystery-thrillers, The Interior (2000) and Dragon Bones (2003), which once again featured the characters of Liu Hulan and David Stark. This series inspired critics to compare Ms. See to Upton Sinclair, Dashiell Hammett, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
In addition to writing books, Ms. See was the Publishers Weekly West Coast Correspondent for thirteen years. As a freelance journalist, her articles have appeared in Vogue, Self, and More, as well as in numerous book reviews around the country.
She wrote the libretto for Los Angeles Opera based on On Gold Mountain, which premiered in June 2000 at the Japan American Theatre followed by the Irvine Barclay Theatre. She also served as guest curator for an exhibit on the Chinese-American experience for the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, which then traveled to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., in 2001. Ms. See then helped develop and curate the Family Discovery Gallery at the Autry Museum, an interactive space for children and their families that focuses on Lisa’s bi-racial, bi-cultural family as seen through the eyes of her father as a seven-year-old boy living in 1930s Los Angeles.
In addition, she recently designed a walking tour of Los Angeles Chinatown and wrote the companion guidebook for Angels Walk L.A. to celebrate the opening of the MTA’s new Chinatown metro station. She also curated the inaugural exhibition – a retrospective of artist Tyrus Wong – for the grand opening of the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles.