Meet the Author: Wei Wei - Porter Memorial Library

On February 12 at 10:30 am, the Porter Memorial Library located at 3050 Porter Street welcomes to our series local author, Wei Wei.  She will be speaking about her published memoir, Tracing Our Footsteps: Fifteen Tales of Hope, Struggle, and Triumph.

Tracing Our Footsteps is not just the story of an Asian immigrant family, or a small community from China.  It is a story of political tensions, cultural and generational gaps, and the universal struggle of immigrants who come to the U.S.  Author Wei Wei, a Scotts Valley resident, recounts her father's migration from China to America, and the growth of their relationship after years in separate countries.

 Would Yong Da be able to embrace this land of freedom and reside permanently on foreign soil? In 2004, nearly three years after his wife passed away, Yong Da, the author’s father embarked upon the journey of his life to America. Aged and broken-hearted, he was looking for a new beginning. This humorous, moving, and rich memoir is about the author’s efforts to help her dad to fit into a new environment and to re-establish their relationship. It focuses on ordinary, but profound experiences that a father and a daughter shared, reflecting upon their personal values, perspectives, and priorities during a five-year period and offers the reader insight into the life and struggle of a contemporary immigrant family.

Please join us in welcoming Wei Wei as she gives us her personal account with a reading, discussion and signing of Tracing Our Footsteps: Fifteen Tales of Hope, Struggle, and Triumph.

The public is invited to the free “Meet the Author Fireside Chats” at the Porter Memorial Library.  These are informal coffee hours set around the fireplace.  They feature local authors who discuss their works and answer questions from the audience.  The authors also sell and autograph their books.  Refreshments and coffee will be served, with The Ugly Mug providing the coffee.  Limited parking is available behind the library.  Enter from Soquel Drive into The Bagelry parking lot and drive through to the left.

For more information, call the library at 475-3326 during library hours: Monday-Friday 12-4pm and Saturday 10am–2pm., or check out the library website at: porterml.org.