Book Event: The Blue House I Loved with Kao Kalia Yang & Jen Shin

Celebrate The Blue House I Loved with authors Kao Kalia Yang & Jen Shin — read-aloud, Q&A, and light refreshments!

Join us for an evening celebrating a beautiful new children’s book — and a true Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship collaboration.

The Blue House I Loved is written by award-winning author Kao Kalia Yang (2003 Fellow) and illustrated by artist and architect Jen Shin (2018 Fellow). Together, they’ve created a lyrical, luminous story about a Hmong family’s first home in America—a blue duplex in St. Paul, Minnesota that is too small, imperfect, and utterly beloved. It’s a book about memory, belonging, and the homes that live on in our hearts long after they’re gone.

Kalia and Jen will read the book aloud, with illustrations displayed on screen, and then open the floor for questions from you and your little ones.

Come for the reading, stay for the conversation, and leave with a book your family will return to again and again.