 | Â Â | Join the author of Dragonwings for a discussion of his life, writing and what it was like growing up as an Asian American. Laurence Yep reads from his work along the shore of the Pacific Ocean and takes the viewer on a tour of his hometown on the Monterey Peninsula in California. -20 mins |
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