Saturday, December 2nd at 5PM
The World’s Borough Bookshop
3406 73rd Street, Queens, NY 11372

MFA alum Rebecca Suzuki’s award-winning chapbook, When My Mother Is Most Beautiful, officially hits shelves on December 1st, and is debuting with style the next day at The World’s Bookshop in Jackson Heights, whose mission is to uplift BIPOC voices. Rebecca will be joined by multilingual Queens poet and fellow alum Hannah Lee, for an evening that is sure to be as beautiful as this book is!

When My Mother Is Most Beautiful is at once a powerful love letter to a mother and to language itself, delving into complex questions of family, communication, culture, and connection. These poems chronicle the difficult art of navigating multiple cultural identities, examining how languages twist and morph across cultures through the imperfect act of translation, how they bind people together and keep them apart, and even how they could be reimagined to make a better world.

You can pick up this book at the book party, of course, or order a copy today from Small Press Distribution!