Book Reading & Signing for Alvin Eng's Memoir "Our Laundry, Our Town..."

200 Main Street,Saugerties NY 12477

24 September, 2022

Description

Alvin is a native NYC playwright, performer, acoustic punk rock raconteur and educator. His plays and performances have been seen Off-Broadway, throughout the U.S., as well as in Paris, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng's upbringing in Flushing, Queens in the 1970s. Back then, his family was one of the few immigrant Chinese families in a far-flung neighborhood in New York City. His parents had an arranged marriage and ran a Chinese Hand Laundry. From behind the counter of his parent’s laundry and within the confines of a household that was rooted in a different century and culture, he sought to reconcile this insular home life with the turbulent yet inspiring street life that was all around them––from the faux martial arts of tv’s Kung Fu to the burgeoning underworld of the punk rock scene. More about Alvin and his book!: NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/10/nyregion/alvin-eng.html NPR/WNYC: https://www.wnyc.org/story/playwright-and-educator-alvin-engs-new-memoir-our-laundry-our-town/ - NY1 https://youtu.be/OaWPbDp_1z8