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As a fellow Chinese American Professor, I would like to let you know about my memoir that was just published by a division of Penguin Books. It is currently the #1 nonfiction bestseller at Kepler's Bookstore in Menlo Park, and it received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. The Kitchen Shrink: A Psychiatrist's Reflections on Healing in a Changing World is my memoir of working as a psychiatrist and physician, and engages issues of health care reform. Yet it is grounded in my identity as a Chinese American who grew up in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles, something uncommon for a literary book.
I would welcome any opportunities to let your organization know about my book, or to speak to your organization. I apologize that my reading is not good enough to fully read Chinese. However, I have tried. My parents sent me to Chinese classes at Cerritos College when I was a kid, and then I interned at National Taiwan University Hospital, and took Mandarin classes. However, since I grew up speaking Mandarin to my parents, I speak better than I read.
Here is information about my book.
http://www.keplers.com/book/9781594487538
Also, I will be reading at Crowell Public Library in San Marino on Monday July 16, at 6 p.m.
http://sanmarinopl.blogspot.com/
Very best,
Dora Wang, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Author, "The Kitchen Shrink: A Psychiatrist's Reflections on Healing in a Changing World"
(Riverhead Books, The Penguin Group, 2010)
dwang@salud.unm.edu |
