Author Talk with Teow Lim Goh
Description
Join Teow Lim Goh as she reads from her newest work "Bitter Creek", a lyric Chinese epic of the American West, that reveals the devastating realities of the 1885 Rock Springs Massacre.
Through the eyes of the struggling railroad workers, their families, and the corporation working them to the bone, Teow Lim Goh creates an ode to buried history that blends epic tradition with modern composition and astonishing empathy to ask the question, “What turns ordinary people into monsters?”
Through the eyes of the struggling railroad workers, their families, and the corporation working them to the bone, Teow Lim Goh creates an ode to buried history that blends epic tradition with modern composition and astonishing empathy to ask the question, “What turns ordinary people into monsters?”