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July 2024 Newsletter

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• Editor's Message • Events • An Article About the Translated Edition of "Behind Latticed Marble: Inner Worlds of Women" • Featured Books

Editor's Message

Hello AACP Newsletter Readers.

I’m very late with this newsletter. My apologies about this.

AACP has been very busy this past month. We hope you had a chance to see us at some of the events that we’ve been to. It was great seeing you all and I hope you get a chance to see us at some upcoming events.

We would like to point out that author Frank Abe and the contributor of this month’s article, Apala Egan are planning to be with us at the Palo Alto Obon this coming Saturday. Frank Abe, will be doing a short presentation on his new book “The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration.” We hope to do an interview with him for this newsletter in the coming month.

Thank you very much Apala Egan for submitting your article.

As always, we have a wonder selection of featured books. This month we feature eight graphic novels/biography/memoir.

That’s all I have time for. Have a wonderful August.

Leonard Chan

Executive Editor

Events

August 3, 2024, 1-8pm: Palo Alto Obon (we will be there)

2751 Louis Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303

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August 10, 2024, 3-7pm: Love Letter to Japantown: Stories of Resilience

22 Peace Plaza, Suite 540, San Francisco, CA

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September 14, 2024, 11am-4pm: 6th Annual Bay Area Chuseok Festival (we will be there)

Main Post Lawn, The Presidio, San Francisco, CA

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September 14, 2024, 10:30am-4:30pm: San Leandro Moon Festival

San Leandro Main Library, 300 Estudillo Ave, San Leandro, CA

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September 14, 2024: Midori Kai

Lakeside Office Plaza, 1279-1299 Oakmead Pkwy, Sunnyvale, CA

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If you have an event that you would like us to mention and or to participate in, please feel free to let us know.

An Article About the Translated Edition of

Behind Latticed Marble: Inner Worlds of Women

By pioneering Bengali feminist writer Jyotirmoyee Devi Sen

The following is an article submitted by the book’s translator Apala G. Egan.

Apala Egan is a retired community college instructor that taught Economics at such colleges as DeAnza College, College of San Mateo, San Jose City College, and Evergreen Valley College.

She grew up in India and is fluent in Bengali and English, and also speaks Hindi. She has always loved literature and upon retirement, took Creative Writing coursework at UCLA, Stanford, and Berkeley. She has attended the juried “Community of Writers Conference,” formerly named “Community of Writers at Squaw Valley” where she was awarded the Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Scholarship.

Apala Egan is also the granddaughter of the book’s author Jyotirmoyee Devi Sen.

Please read the following article and learn a little bit about Jyotirmoyee Devi Sen's fascinating book and work.

Featured Books

View full descriptions of all these featured books at Bookshop.org where you'll also have the opportunity to purchase them.

Children's Books

AAPI Connection: Chinese, other

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