In the Company of Strangers Reception and Reading
The release of In the Company of Strangers was first celebrated with a launch reception and reading at Punahou School three weeks earlier. This reading and reception at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (information provided below) is the second of the two scheduled events.
Reception and Reading
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
6:30 p.m. reception and book signing
7:00 p.m. reading by Michelle Cruz Skinner
University of Hawai‘i Art Auditorium
FREE and open to the public
Reception and reading co-sponsored by the University of Hawai‘i American Studies Department
“Sixteen deceptively simple stories comprise Michelle Cruz Skinner’s much-anticipated follow-up to Balikbayan and Mango Seasons, many of them about Filipinos tongue-tied and alienated in the motherland, or scattered across the map of heartaches and homesickness in the company of strangers called countrymen, family, lovers. A book of quiet gems definitely worth the wait.” —R. Zamora Linmark, author of Prime Time Apparitions and The Evolution of a Sigh
Michelle Cruz Skinner teaches at Punahou School. She was born in Manila and raised primarily in Olongapo City, Philippines. A short story from her first collection was selected for the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project and her second book was nominated for the 1996 Philippine National Book Award. Her work has been adapted for stage and public radio and she has read extensively at universities and conferences, both in the Philippines and on the mainland.
