{"id":17782,"date":"2012-04-21T11:11:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T15:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=17782"},"modified":"2012-04-20T13:20:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T17:20:47","slug":"forgotten-country-by-catherine-chung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=17782","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 21 2012 4:00PM<br \/>\nCentral Library, Dweck Center- 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11238<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Chung reads from her debut novel, Forgotten Country. Weaving Korean folklore and history within a modern narrative of immigration and identity, Chung delivers a fierce exploration of the inevitability of loss and the conflict between loyalty and freedom. WNYC\u2019s Leonard Lopate hosts.<\/p>\n<p>About the Book<br \/>\nWeaving Korean folklore and history within a modern narrative of immigration and identity, Catherine Chung delivers a fierce exploration of the inevitability of loss and the conflict between loyalty and freedom. Forgotten Country marks the debut of a graceful, astonishing new voice in fiction, one with a quiet ferocity that will break your heart.<\/p>\n<p>About the Author<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catherinechung.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catherine Chung <\/a>lives in New York, where she is working on a new novel and a collection of essays. She is a Granta New Voice, and can often be found eating ice cream, petting other people&#8217;s dogs, or wandering around with her nose in a book.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GxHSV_KV5pk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 21 2012 4:00PM Central Library, Dweck Center- 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11238<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17782"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17786,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17782\/revisions\/17786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}