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SUMMARY:David Mura Presents Exit\, Miss Saigon
DESCRIPTION:Join Subtext Books at The University Club of Saint Paul on We
 dnesday\, 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 we
 ll into his twenties when he began to explore his Asian American identit
 y. In Exit\, Miss Saigon\, Mura writes with frank openness about his per
 sonal experiences and the irrevocable ways they are rooted in the intern
 alized\, systemic racism that permeates American culture. Starting out a
 s a young poet in Minneapolis working toward a PhD\, Mura avoided readin
 g “minority literature\,” yearning instead to be like famed poets in the
 ir ivory towers—Robert Lowell\, Randall Jarrell\, John Berryman\, artist
 s tortured by their families and personal demons rather than by politics
  or race. As Mura began to read more widely\, his conceptions of race an
 d its societal construction began to broaden. When the Ordway Theater in
  St. Paul\, Mi\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/90d9d50e-499f-427f-b
 815-16f78754bd84
LOCATION:Subtext Bookstore\, 6 West 5th St.
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/90d9d50e-499f-427f-b815-16f78754bd8
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