David Mura Presents Exit, Miss Saigon

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Join Subtext Books at The University Club of Saint Paul on Wednesday, November 11th at 7 PM for an event with David Mura, who will e presenting his recently released memoir Exit, Miss Saigon. A profound memoir of coming to terms with a lost racial identity David Mura was well into his twenties when he began to explore his Asian American identity. In Exit, Miss Saigon, Mura writes with frank openness about his personal experiences and the irrevocable ways they are rooted in the internalized, systemic racism that permeates American culture. Starting out as a young poet in Minneapolis working toward a PhD, Mura avoided reading “minority literature,” yearning instead to be like famed poets in their ivory towers—Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, artists tortured by their families and personal demons rather than by politics or race. As Mura began to read more widely, his conceptions of race and its societal construction began to broaden. When the Ordway Theater in St. Paul, Mi

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Subtext Bookstore

6 West 5th St.

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