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Join Anderson’s Bookshop for an author event with Radha Lin Chaddah, to celebrate the release of And The Ancestors Sing, on Thursday, March 5th at 7:00 pm in our Naperville store. Chaddah will be in conversation with professor of law Jessie Wang-Grimm.
Event Format
We will begin checking you in approximately 30 minutes before the start time. After a presentation and Q&A with the author, the line will form in numbered order with the following guidelines:
Posed photo with your camera taken by our staff
There is a limit of 2 books from home to be signed (unless otherwise stated)
There is a limit of 1 personalization of the new book only (unless otherwise stated)
All events have open seating. The “Order Line Number” on your pdf ticket is your reserved place in the signing line. You will line up to meet the author based on that number.
If you cannot attend, you must pick up your book (if included with ticket) at the hosting store within 30 days of the event. We can ship that book to you for an additional charge of $9.99; please call the store to arrange that.
Pre-registration is required for this event because space is limited.
More about And The Ancestors Sing:
In 1978, as the Cultural Revolution fades into history, Lei is bartered away into marriage for two cartons of cigarettes and a handful of eggs. She finds herself in the unfamiliar village of her new husband where she is met with indifference. When a disaster upends their world, Lei and her husband are forced to join China’s vast wave of city-bound, rural migrants, leaving behind children whom they may never see again.
Sixteen-year-old LuLu arrives in Shanghai with nothing but ambition. Denied a factory job and determined to keep her family from starving, she turns to sex work, navigating the dangers of the city’s underbelly with sharp wit and a fierce will to survive. When a powerful client offers her a chance at security, LuLu faces an impossible choice: seize a future that could lift her family from poverty, or risk everything for a life on her own terms.
Immersive, evocative, and impeccably detailed, And The Ancestors Sing is a sweeping, multigenerational story of sacrifice, survival, and the unbreakable pull of home.
About the Author:
Radha Lin Chaddah was born in London to an East Indian father and a Malaysian Chinese mother, and grew up in Kenya, the UK, and the US (in the Chicagoland area). She majored in Biology at the University of Chicago, earned medical and law degrees at the University of Illinois, and a Master of Public Health at Harvard University. She completed Internal Medicine residency training, and later practiced at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston. Radha and her family moved, over the course of twenty years, from Boston to NYC to Taipei to Shanghai to Beijing to Princeton, and finally to Philadelphia. Radha worked as a primary care physician in Boston, NYC and Beijing; worked with the China CDC to co-write the book, HIV/ AIDS: Beyond the Numbers; and provided mental healthcare to patients in several states as a telemedicine doctor upon settling in Philadelphia. Especially treasured by Radha are the inspiring, first-hand stories she has been privileged to hear from patients, colleagues, friends, and family alike.
About the Conversation Partner:
Jessie Wang-Grimm is a clinical assistant professor of law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where her teaching focuses on communication and legal reasoning. Jessie guides first year law students in developing strong writing and advocacy skills for the legal profession, impressing upon them that it all begins with effective storytelling. Prior to entering academia, Jessie practiced law, representing federal and state agencies for nearly 30 years. Jessie lives in the western suburbs of Chicago, where she and her husband Robert raised their two children. She is an active board leader for Alpha Omicron Pi women's fraternity, and is a member of the Illinois Board of Breakthrough T1D.
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