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owner of the Giant Robot store and GR2 Gallery in Sawtelle Japantown.with Rachel Kushner (Creation Lake) in conversation with Carolyn Kellogg (tickets required).

which won a Mary Higgins Clark Award.He is the author of 15 books including Epitaph for a Peach.Eric Nakamura? Eric Nakamura and Jave Yoshimoto.

Kadohata is the author of three novels for adults and 11 novels for children.Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages and is being adapted for film and television.

with her father David Mas Masumoto.

Jave YoshimotoYoshimoto is a recipient of the 2015 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and a recognition award from the United Nations and associate professor of art at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.an activist at the dawn of a social movement — and a father whose struggles have won his son freedoms that eluded Japanese Americans of his generation.

Making Waves examines the impact of ethnic studies in shaping the narrative about Asians in America.premiere of Tadashi Nakamuras documentary Third Act.

“Third Act” is director Tadashi Nakamura’s?tribute to his father.Making Waves tells the story of past and present Asian American movements fueled by a legacy of anti-Asian hate in the U.