Kitchen Talk: Food Histories, Literature, and Afro-Asian Archives in the Americas

AAAYA Board Member, Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe, in a joint collaboration wiht her lab Kitchen Marronage, will host the kitchen talk with Monique Truong, covering food histories, literature, and Afro-Asian Archives in the Americas. Moderated Q&A will follow.

Co-sponsored by AAAYA, Afro-Asia Group, and Kitchen Marronage

Speaker Bios:

Monique Truong, '90 is a Vietnamese American novelist, essayist, and librettist. Her debut novel, The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), was a national bestseller, a New York Times Notable Fiction Book, a Chicago Tribune Favorite Fiction, a Miami Herald Top 10 Books, and winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Awards/Barbara Gittings Literature Award, and Bard Fiction Prize, among others. She followed with two more award-winning novels, Bitter in the Mouth (Random House, 2010) and The Sweetest Fruits (Viking, 2019), and all together her books have been translated into fourteen languages to date. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Rosenthal Family Foundation Award,…