Join AAPIC for a special evening featuring Susan Lieu's powerful one-woman show, 140 lbs. Susan will share her Vietnamese family's experience with escaping their country and the trauma in an immigrant family's lives.

After the talk, connect with Susan, a celebrated local author whose latest book, The Manicurist's Daughter, has been recognized as a 2024 Best Book by National Public Radio, the Smithsonian, and Elle Magazine.

Tickets:

• $20 for adults and non-students.

• Free for students, registration required.

This program is hosted by AAPIC NextGen, Maria Carrillo High School Book Club, and Maria Carrillo High School Asian Club, and sponsored by CAAPLE - California Association of Asian & Pasifika Leaders in Education

Private Event

A night of “literacy and legacy” to raise vital funds for the King County Library Foundation while honoring local authors and celebrating the art and power of storytelling. Join us for a festive evening of live music, mingling with 20 Literary Lions (including Susan!), Makerspace activities, signature cocktails and mocktails, hearty hors d'oeuvres, and much more. Authors will be available to sign books. Keynote speaker is Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief and MC is Jay Martin Jr, National PBS Host.

Tickets here!

Susan is a featured speaker for the upcoming Hedgebrook Playwrights Showcase, an event to amplify and delight in the work of Hedgebrook alumnae playwrights. Come celebrate with us as we get an intimate look into the playwriting process, with craft conversations, table readings, and a discussion about the future of theater in our changing world. Susan will be in conversation with past Seattle Poet Laureate and fellow Hedgebrook alumnae Jourdan Imani Keith to delve into the art and craft of genre jumping. Tickets HERE.

More than two dozen Pacific Northwest authors, including Susan, will be on hand for the 15th Holiday Bookfest! Books are great gifts – and signed books are priceless. For this much-anticipated event, treasured local authors of fiction, memoir, travel, nature, cookbooks, kids’ books and more will gather in one room, pens in hand. Phinney Books will handle book sales, a portion of which will go to the Bureau of Fearless Ideas and the Phinney Neighborhood Association. BFI is doing fantastic work tutoring the authors of tomorrow, with programs for kids 6-18. Event info HERE and facebook event link HERE.

​Susan Lieu returns to Santa Fe to discuss her memoir The Manicurist’s Daughter with Terry Ngo.

Presented by Dent The Future and the Santa Fe Public Library. Copies of The Manicurist's Daughter will be available for purchase at the event via op cit Books.

Free event. Register HERE.

Join Model Minority Mom Podcast co-hosts Susan Lieu, Jeanette Park, and Kate Wang as we stay out a little late to go see Dr. Karen Tang and Jane Park discuss "“It’s Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (but Were Never Told)” The night begins at the Seattle Public Library (Central) for the book talk (7-8:30pm) and then (no-host) wine afterwards with the author herself and us! Book talk is free. Register HERE.

Join the Yellow Chair Collective for a virtual event where we will be discussing The Manicurist's Daughter. The Yellow Chair Collective chose this book because it powerfully displays many of the themes we often see with our clients: emotional suppression in Asian American families, family roles, migration experiences, and harmful beauty standards. Susan will be joining the bookclub for an interview and Q&A. Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with other Asians/Asian Americans through the power of stories! Free. Register HERE.

The Manicurist’s Daughter has been selected as the PeaceTrees Vietnam’s Summer Common Read. Join Susan in reflecting on the refugee experience and second generation perspectives related to the Vietnam War. This discussion and Q&A will be moderated by Dr. Julie Pham with a book signing to follow.

This event is hosted by non-profit PeaceTrees Vietnam whose mission is dedicated to addressing the legacy of the U.S-Vietnam War through mine action, community assistance, and citizen diplomacy. Free tickets HERE.

Join Susan Lieu and Pork Filled Productions for a special showcase of local AAPI artists across multiple genres. Susan will do a deep dive on the creative process of how she turned an experimental 25-minute solo show into a nationally published memoir. Additional performances by the cast of “Vietgone,” Alegra Batara, Yuelan, and more.

Ticket link coming soon. Pay-what-you-can.

Watch the theatrical hit “Vietgone” with Susan Lieu, who will take the stage for a post-show discussion unpacking the complexity of Vietnamese refugee families and their untold stories.

Arkansas, 1974, after the fall of Saigon. Two young survivors (who may or may not be the play-wright’s parents) meet in America. Will this strange new land of burritos, bikers and pot allow them to fall in love? Flipping stereotypes and remixing history, Vietgone cooks up a sexy, funny romp that’s a secret origin story for playwright Qui Nguyen (author of Raya and the Last Dragon)!

Produced by Pork Filled Productions and SIS Productions. Buy tickets for the August 15th show HERE.

Susan will be doing a reading of her memoir before the start of this incredible show UNRIVALED put on by SIS Productions.

UNRIVALED is a fun “Mean Girls” take on two of the most exalted writers of all time as they juggle friendship, career, love and political intrigue – you know, all in a day’s work for two iconic females from 11th Century Japan! Feisty and fresh, this reimagining of the rivalry between Murasaki Shikibu (The Tale of Genji) and Sei Shonagon (The Pillow Book) explores what it means to be female in a man’s world. Why is it that some things haven’t changed, even after a thousand years?! Inspired by real-life icons from 1,000 years ago, this playful historical fiction is great for teens through elders and everyone in-between.

Get tickets HERE and make sure it’s the Thursday, May 23rd show!

Intergenerational Healing and the F Word: Feelings
For many Vietnamese refugees, expressing feelings is shameful and a sign of weakness. But what happens when unresolved PTSD breeds a culture of silence, family dysfunction, impossible standards of beauty, and emotional distance? How can intergenerational healing be possible when no one wants to confront it? Sociologist Professor Haitrieu Nguyen unpacks these complex questions with author Susan Lieu and her memoir The Manicurist’s Daughter.

Co-produced by Vietnam Society. Part of the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art’s annual IlluminAsia Festival to celebrate, convene, learn, reflect, and foster connections through Asian arts and cultures!

Location: The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, Freer Gallery, Meyer Auditorium. Washington DC. Free tickets HERE.

Fireside Chat with The Manicurist's Daughter Author Susan Lieu

In honor of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, join the Asian Network at Yale (ANY) for a Fireside Chat with The Manicurist's Daughter Author Susan Lieu.

The conversation will be moderated by Joanna Carmona, Program Manager at the Digital Ethics Center and Asian Network at Yale Co-Chair, followed by a Q&A and book signing. Books will be available for purchase on-site.

Register for this free event HERE.

In the latest “How They Did It” conversation co-presented by Litquake and LitCamp, we’ll hear from five intrepid authors of recent memoirs, all of whom took the heroic step of committing their fascinating stories to the page. Eddie Ahn (Advocate), Sylvia Brownrigg (The Whole Staggering Mystery), Margaret Juhae Lee (Starry Field), Susan Lieu (The Manicurist's Daughter), and Carvell Wallace (Another Word for Love) bravely unfurl stories of family, memory, ambition, healing, and love. Our moderator is Rachel Howard, author of the memoir The Lost Night. What did they risk on the page? What, if anything, do they regret? And how can they stir other would-be memoirists to take up the mantel of bravery and write their stories, no matter the stakes?

Tickets HERE.

Join Hope Edelman, New York Times Bestselling Author and creator of the organization Motherless Daughters, in conversation with Susan Lieu. The two will discuss early mother loss, family silence, and writing your story.

Free tickets HERE.

Kundiman, Kaya Press, and AAAS present the inaugural AAAS Lit Cafe, a meeting place for Asian American literature and Asian American Studies. Featuring Susan Lieu, Jenny Liou, and Mimi Khúc in conversation about Asian American parents and daughters, plus multimedia by artists Jess X. Snow and Cathy Linh Che. Come early for drink and food and literary lounging!

This event will be held in the Ballard Ballroom and is free and open to the public.

Join us for an electric evening with Vietnamese-American multihyphenate storyteller Susan Lieu to discuss her debut memoir THE MANICURIST'S DAUGHTER. The event promises to be a reckoning on intergenerational trauma and healing, sprinkled with vulnerability and humor. The conversation will be moderated by Elizabeth Ai (also a manicurist’s daughter!), Director & Producer of the forthcoming documentary NEW WAVE. The event will conclude with a Community Q&A and book signing. Books available for purchase on-site.

Co-presented by Advance Beauty College, Little Saigon Official, The Vietnamese with Kenneth Nguyen Podcast, and Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA).

Get tickets HERE.

Zibby hosts a live virtual monthly meeting with a group discussion and a 30 minute Q&A with the author of that month’s book pick—and April will be Susan Lieu!

To register, join Zibby’s Book Club.

Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) has partnered with the San Francisco Public Library to bring a quarterly reading series featuring Southeast Asian writers across the city. Authors Susan Lieu, Thy Hope Luong, Aimee Phan, and Alexandra Huynh discuss their experiences of being Vietnamese American women writers. Come join us for a night of fun in reading their works.

Get tickets HERE.

In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, The Sonoma State University HUB Cultural Center will be welcoming Susan Lieu as she discusses her powerful debut – The Manicurist’s Daughter: A Memoir. The Manicurist’s Daughter is much more than a memoir about grief, trauma, and body image. It is a story of fierce determination, strength in shared culture, and finding your place in the world. Susan will be in conversation with writer, speaker, and story doula Jennifer Hyde. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. Located at SSU Hub Cultural Center Ballroom B. For questions or accommodations please contact delgadobi@sonoma.edu

The UW Department of Asian Languages and Literature and the Center for Southeast Asia and Its Diasporas welcome three distinguished authors to UW to discuss their work. This book panel event will feature author presentations from Susan Lieu, Putsata Reang, and L. Ayu Saraswati and a discussion moderated by Professors Bich-Ngoc Turner and Linh Thủy Nguyễn.

Get tickets HERE.

Join us for a special in-person conversation on “Food, Family and Feelings” with Susan Lieu as she visits the Wing Luke Museum to talk about her debut memoir, "The Manicurist's Daughter." Susan will be available to autograph books at the end of this talk. Copies of her book will be available for sale via the Wing Luke Museum Marketplace. Seating will be limited. Guests with a ticket will have priority seating before day-of, walk-up guests.

Get tickets HERE.

Zibby’s Bookshop and Harvardwood invites you to join Susan Lieu and Jeff Yang in their discussion of The Manicurist’s Daughter. No-host afterparty at cocktail garden Sorry Not Sorry (11520 W Pico Blvd) to follow.

Get tickets HERE.

UCLA welcomes writer and performance artist Susan Lieu, who will read from her new book, The Manicurist's Daughter. Sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Asian American Studies Center, Asian American Studies Department , Gender Studies, CSW|Streisand Center, Center for EthnoCommunications, and the Vietnamese Student Union. Books will be available for purchase at the event. The event is open to the public.

Get tickets HERE.

Let's honor our loved ones, hold space for grief, and reflect on the possibilities of transformation with author Susan Lieu, activist V (formerly Eve Ensler), and musician treya lam. Presented by Reimagine.

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Join Vietnamese-American multihyphenate storyteller Susan Lieu for her electric nationwide book launch of "The Manicurist's Daughter." Delving into themes of grief, identity, and intergenerational trauma, this gripping memoir explores the crumbling of the American Dream after her mother's tragic death during plastic surgery. Moderated conversation, community Q&A, and book signing to follow event. Books available for purchase by Harvard Book Store. Additionally, all are welcome to join a post-event reception and additional book signing at Phillips Brooks House Parlor Room, Harvard Yard.

Get tickets HERE.

Join us for an electric evening with Vietnamese-American multihyphenate storyteller Susan Lieu to discuss her debut memoir THE MANICURIST'S DAUGHTER. The event promises to be a reckoning on intergenerational trauma and healing, sprinkled with vulnerability and humor. Moderated conversation, community Q&A, and book signing to follow event. Books available for purchase with Eastwind Books. No-host afterparty at The Lion’s Den (across the street) to follow.

Co-presented by Center for Asian American Media. In partnership with ARTogether, Asian American Women Artists Association, City Attorney David Chiu, Coro Northern California, Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, Great Star Theater, HOME MADE @ ARTogether, Kearny Street Workshop, and Litquake (San Francisco's Literary Festival).

Get tickets HERE.

Copperfield’s Books is delighted to welcome Susan Lieu to Santa Rosa (her hometown!) in celebration of her powerful debut of The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir. Susan will be in conversation at Maria Carrillo High School with local educator (and Susan’s high school founding principal) Pamela Lind Devlin. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A and book signing.

Get tickets HERE.