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Announcement regarding covid-19 concern
We are open for online service and limited store hours during Phase II safe reopening.
Monday-Wednesday & Friday-Saturday: 12 Noon-4PM
Sunday & Thursday CLOSED
Curbside pick-up now available by appointment.
Select Pick-up with order. You will be contacted with your pick-up appointment.
Please browse to select titles you need.
If you cannot locate the book you want, email us at eastwindbooks@gmail.com.
Thank you for your support and be safe.
Eastwind Books of Berkeley, bookselling since 1982
Monday-Wednesday & Friday-Saturday: 12 Noon-4PM
Sunday & Thursday CLOSED
Curbside pick-up now available by appointment.
Select Pick-up with order. You will be contacted with your pick-up appointment.
Please browse to select titles you need.
If you cannot locate the book you want, email us at eastwindbooks@gmail.com.
Thank you for your support and be safe.
Eastwind Books of Berkeley, bookselling since 1982
UPCOMING EVENTS!
Saturday, July 18th at 2pm | FREE Zoom Event
Presented by Eastwind Books of Berkeley Book Club.
To follow our June book club discussion, Roselle Lim, author of "Natalie Tan's Book of Luck & Fortune" will join us for an online discussion of her book! Bring your questions and dishes from the book to share!
Register to receive event link.
About the book:
Lush and visual, chock-full of delicious recipes, Roselle Lim’s magical debut novel is about food, heritage, and finding family in the most unexpected places.
At the news of her mother’s death, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn’t spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Francisco’s Chinatown that she remembers from her childhood is fading, with businesses failing and families moving out. She’s even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmother’s restaurant.
The neighborhood seer reads the restaurant’s fortune in the leaves: Natalie must cook three recipes from her grandmother’s cookbook to aid her struggling neighbors before the restaurant will succeed. Unfortunately, Natalie has no desire to help them try to turn things around. But with the support of a surprising new friend and a budding romance, Natalie starts to realize that maybe her neighbors really have been there for her all along.
About the Author:
Roselle Lim was born in the Philippines and immigrated to Canada as a child. She lived in north Scarborough in a diverse, Asian neighbourhood.
She found her love of writing by listening to her lola (paternal grandmother's) stories about Filipino folktales. Growing up in a household where Chinese superstition mingled with Filipino Catholicism, she devoured books about mythology, which shaped the fantasies in her novels.
An artist by nature, she considers writing as "painting with words."
Presented by Eastwind Books of Berkeley Book Club.
To follow our June book club discussion, Roselle Lim, author of "Natalie Tan's Book of Luck & Fortune" will join us for an online discussion of her book! Bring your questions and dishes from the book to share!
Register to receive event link.
About the book:
Lush and visual, chock-full of delicious recipes, Roselle Lim’s magical debut novel is about food, heritage, and finding family in the most unexpected places.
At the news of her mother’s death, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn’t spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Francisco’s Chinatown that she remembers from her childhood is fading, with businesses failing and families moving out. She’s even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmother’s restaurant.
The neighborhood seer reads the restaurant’s fortune in the leaves: Natalie must cook three recipes from her grandmother’s cookbook to aid her struggling neighbors before the restaurant will succeed. Unfortunately, Natalie has no desire to help them try to turn things around. But with the support of a surprising new friend and a budding romance, Natalie starts to realize that maybe her neighbors really have been there for her all along.
About the Author:
Roselle Lim was born in the Philippines and immigrated to Canada as a child. She lived in north Scarborough in a diverse, Asian neighbourhood.
She found her love of writing by listening to her lola (paternal grandmother's) stories about Filipino folktales. Growing up in a household where Chinese superstition mingled with Filipino Catholicism, she devoured books about mythology, which shaped the fantasies in her novels.
An artist by nature, she considers writing as "painting with words."
Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune
july book club
In light of recent events surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement, our July Book Club selection is Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal.
New to the Movement? Fear not! Whether you've had many conversations about Black Lives Matter or this will be your first one, we welcome you all to join us as we learn and grow together.
The book club meeting will take place via Zoom on Saturday, July 25 at 3pm. Register to receive the meeting link.
Book Club members can receive 10% discount. Email us at eastwindbooks@gmail.com for details.
Join our Book Club Facebook group to engage in conversation throughout the month: www.tinyurl.com/ewclub
New to the Movement? Fear not! Whether you've had many conversations about Black Lives Matter or this will be your first one, we welcome you all to join us as we learn and grow together.
The book club meeting will take place via Zoom on Saturday, July 25 at 3pm. Register to receive the meeting link.
Book Club members can receive 10% discount. Email us at eastwindbooks@gmail.com for details.
Join our Book Club Facebook group to engage in conversation throughout the month: www.tinyurl.com/ewclub
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
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Sunday, July 26th at 3 PM
FREE Zoom Event Join us online for the book launch of Migrant Crossings with author Annie Isabel Fukushima! Dr. Fukushima along with panelists Carolyn Kim, Hediana Utarti, and Cindy Liou will gather for a discussion on human trafficking, citizenship, and human rights. Migrant Crossings examines the experiences and representations of Asian and Latina/o migrants trafficked in the United States into informal economies and service industries. Through sociolegal and media analysis of court records, press releases, law enforcement campaigns, film representations, theatre performances, and the law, Annie Isabel Fukushima questions how we understand victimhood, criminality, citizenship, and legality. Migrant Crossings deeply interrogates what it means to bear witness to migration in these migratory times—and what such migrant crossings mean for subjects who experience violence during or after their crossing. |
about the author:Dr. Annie Isabel Fukushima is Assistant Professor in the Ethnic Studies Division in the School for Cultural and Social Transformation at the University of Utah. Her research covers issues of migration, violence, race, gender, and witnessing and her expertise is recognized across the U.S. Dr. Fukushima's scholarly works appear in numerous peer-reviewed journals. She values praxis, having implemented community-based research projects and served as an expert witness on human trafficking for immigration, civil, and criminal cases in multiple US states, including California.
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Hediana Utarti Ph.D joined Asian Women’s Shelter in 2000 and is currently its Anti-Trafficking Program Coordinator/ Community Advocate. Her position includes managing and developing the program, providing direct services for survivors, and conducting prevention education in various communities. She had co-facilitated AWS shelter support group for more than 10 years utilizing Art as Healing to enhance survivors’ stabilization and recovery.
Cindy C. Liou, Esq. is the State Policy Director at Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), a national non-profit working to provide legal counsel to unaccompanied refugee and immigrant children in the United States. She provides consulting and training on topics ranging from human trafficking, domestic violence lethality, to best practices on how to collaborate in cross-disciplinary teams to support survivors of violence. She is also the recipient of the SF Collaborative Against Human Trafficking Modern Day Abolitionist Award for Policy and Advocacy. |
Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the U.S.
Livestream Link to April 19th Panel.
Panel Discussion: Our Communities, Climate Change and Covid 19
Julie Sze, author of Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger, will discuss how the climate crisis connects with struggles against racism, gender violence, and the exploitation of people and natural resources. Joined by environmental activists Shina Robinson, Ratha Lai, and SF State Asian American Studies Professor Russell Jeung; they will discuss how the climate change crisis has impacted immigrant and refugee communities facing urban and rural pollution. How have the communities mobilized for change and justice. The panel will also explore recent questions on the Covid-19 response in our communities.
Julie Sze is Professor of American Studies and founding director of the Environmental Justice Project at the UC Davis.
Shina Robinson, policy coordinator with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN); an environmental justice organization based in California’s Asian immigrant and refugee communities.
Ratha Lai, executive director of Critical Impact Consulting has been involved racial justice campaigns and initiatives for the past decade with half being in environmental justice.
Russell Jeung is a professor of Asian American Studies at SF State. And author of Family Sacrifices: the Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans.
Julie Sze is Professor of American Studies and founding director of the Environmental Justice Project at the UC Davis.
Shina Robinson, policy coordinator with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN); an environmental justice organization based in California’s Asian immigrant and refugee communities.
Ratha Lai, executive director of Critical Impact Consulting has been involved racial justice campaigns and initiatives for the past decade with half being in environmental justice.
Russell Jeung is a professor of Asian American Studies at SF State. And author of Family Sacrifices: the Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans.
check out our new book categories!!!
from past eastwind events
Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
Author: Phuc Tran
ISBN: 9781250194718
Published: Flatiron Books, April 21, 2020
Hardcover, 320 pages
recommended by Viet thanh nguyen and phuc tran
Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations
Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger
Author: Julie Sze
ISBN: 9780520300743
Publisher:
Binding: Paperback (160 pages)
Publication Date: January 2020
