

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Parchment Book Group: Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 09 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Mon, 09 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: The Parchment Book Group meets Monday, February 9 at 6:00 pm.

Our featured book for February: Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin ~ The Great Michigan Read Selection for 2025-26
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​Join us for an hour of discussion of the featured book. Share your thoughts, share a quote or two from the book, and rate the book from 1-10.

New guests are always warmly welcomed! ?

Let us know if you need to borrow a copy of the book!
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About the Book:

This memoir -- this year's Great Michigan Read selection -- tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’s Detroit.

Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone—from the city’s first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples—could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. 

Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned to embrace his identity as a gay ABC, or American-born Chinese; where he navigated the divided city’s spiraling misfortunes; and where—between helpings of almond boneless chicken, sweet-and-sour pork, and some of his own, less-savory culinary concoctions—he realized just how much he had to offer to the world, to his beloved family, and to himself.

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Looking Ahead:

March 9: Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez - the Kalamazoo Reading Together Selection

April 13: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (true crime)

May 11: The Briar Club by Kate Quinn (historical fiction)

June 8: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans (fiction)

July 13: Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and her Two Remarkable Sisters by Diane Jacobs (biography) For America 250
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Kalamazoo
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Parchment Community Library
- **lat**: 42.32526
- **long**: -85.57022
- **full address**: Parchment Community Library, 401 S Riverview Dr, Kalamazoo, MI 49004-1200, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 09 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Parchment Community Library, 401 S Riverview Dr, Kalamazoo, MI 49004-1200, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Parchment Community Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** food-drinks
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