# Event Details - **Event Name**: KARIN K. JENSEN at Books Inc. Alameda - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 13 Nov, 2025 at 05:30 pm – Thu, 13 Nov, 2025 at 06:30 pm - **Event Description**: Meet Karin J. Jenson, reading and signing copies of her new book, The Strength of Water: An Asian American Coming of Age Memoir.About this EventMeet Karin J. Jenson, reading and signing copies of her new book, The Strength of Water: An Asian American Coming of Age Memoir.In 1920s Detroit, King Ying lives in a small apartment behind her parents’ laundry business, where she stands on a box to iron clothes, endures taunts of "Ching-Ching Chinaman" on the playground, and tries to reconcile what passes for normal in Jazz Age America with her father’s vastly different cultural values.She dreams of a real home, the elegance of her Jane Arden paper dolls, and winning her stern father’s affection. But when Ba incurs steep debts during the Great Depression, he sends her far from hope to live in his ancestral village.In remote Tai Ting Pong, in the Guangdong Province of China, she feels as foreign in the land of her heritage as in the country of her birth. She must survive hunger, dangerous superstitions, and Japanese invasion as the Sino-Japanese War begins. When guardian angels help her return to the U.S., it’s a chance to seize her American dream. In this inspiring and heartfelt memoir, Karin K. Jensen records her mother’s transpacific quest for identity, survival, and new world dreams.“A Chinese American woman looks back on poverty, war, and family betrayal in this heartfelt memoir. . . . A classic, vividly written immigrant saga.”—Kirkus ReviewsThe Strength of Water is a daughter’s careful excavation of her mother’s story… written with tremendous love and authenticity. It is an important document of the Asian American experience."--- Kao Kalia Yang, award winning author of The Song Poet and The LatehomecomerKarin K. Jensen is a local news writer for the Alameda Post and the debut author of The Strength of Water: An Asian American Coming-of-Age Memoir, which made the Kirkus List of Top 100 Indie Books of 2024 in its first edition and won awards from The BookFest, International Book Awards, and the San Francisco Book Festival. She has won NewsBreak editorial awards, including on the topics of #StopAsianHate and #AAPI Voices. 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