Ava Chin: Dimensionalizing Paper People
Ava Chin is the author of Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming (Penguin Press, 2023) where she shatters the silence that The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 imposed on the disenfranchised Chinese immigrant community. Her extensive research paired with her rich library of oral histories passed down through familial generations were woven together to create an American Library Association Notable Book and a Best Book of the year by TIME, the San Francisco Chronicle, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews and Elle. She also wrote the award-winning Eating Wildly…
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