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The Sorrows of Others

Jun
5

Monday, June 5, 2023 | 6:30 p.m. ET Someday Bar, 364 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY

On Monday, June 5, join Ada Zhang as she reads from her debut story collection, The Sorrows of Others, as part of the #YeahYouWrite reading series. With Howard Fishman, Priscilla Gilman, and Leigh Newman. The event features #LiteraryCocktails, dinner, a rapid-fire Q&A, and an open mic. 

This event will be held in person at Someday Bar. Registration is required. 


Ada Zhang

is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her short stories have appeared in A Public Space, McSweeney's, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She grew up in Austin, Texas, and now lives in New York City. The Sorrows of Others is her first book.


The Sorrows of Others

In New York City, an art student finds an unexpected subject when she moves in with a grandmother from Xi’an, and boundaries are put into question. When a newlywed couple moves to Arizona, adapting to unfamiliar customs keeps their marriage from falling apart. A woman grapples with what it means to care for another, and the limits of that care, when her dying husband returns from Beijing years after abandoning her. And during a rainy summer in Texas, a visitor exposes the unspoken but unburiable history that binds two families together. Ada Zhang writes with startling honesty and love about lives young and old, in a stunning debut that explores what happens when we leave home and what happens when we stay, and the selves we meet and shed in the process of becoming.

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