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Explore the immigrant histories woven through Orphan Bachelors as Fae Myenne Ng discusses her acclaimed memoir in conversation with Ben Fong-Torres.

What happens when immigration laws leave generations of men cut off from family, home, and a sense of belonging? In Orphan Bachelors, Ng draws on her childhood in San Francisco’s Chinatown to tell an intimate immigrant story shaped by the Chinese Exclusion era. Through memories of her parents and the isolated men who surrounded them, Ng reveals how policy becomes personal, shaping identity, responsibility, and survival. Blending memoir with social history, she offers a compassionate meditation on inheritance, resilience, and the long emotional afterlife of exclusion.

Books will be available for purchase, and a signing with the author will take place in the lobby following the program.

Fae Meynne Ng

Ben Fong-Torres was an editor and writer at Rolling Stone (and a real-life character in Almost Famous). While at the magazine, he was a Sunday DJ on KSAN-FM. He has published ten books, including his memoirs, The Rice Room: Growing Up Chinese American. He co-anchored telecasts of the Chinese New Year on KTVU for 24 years, winning five Emmys. He earned an honorary doctorate from the California State University Board of Trustees and is the subject of a documentary, Like a Rolling Stone. He is a DJ on www.MoonaliceRadio.com.