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SITKA - th y lê is the Island Institute's Writer-in-Residence for the month of February. A "Meet the Author" reading will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 3 at the Kettleson Library. Refreshments will be served. There is a suggested donation of $5.
th y lê, United States Artists Ford Fellow, is a novelist, poet and solo performance artist. She left her native Vietnam by boat in 1978 with her family and settled in Southern California. lê writes about the experiences of Vietnamese refugees living in the U. S., in her words, the "floating casualties of history." Her well-received first novel, "The Gangster We Are All Looking For," chronicles the life of a Vietnamese girl growing up in California.
lê's residency is made possible through Alaska AIR, a collaboration between United States Artists and the Rasmuson Foundation. While in Sitka, lê will also offer a writing workshop, a discussion and additional readings. Learn more at http://www.islandinstitutealaska.org/.
