AVA CHIN, a 5th generation Chinese American New Yorker, is the author of the nonfiction narrative MOTT STREET: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming (April 2023, Penguin Press), an intimate portrayal of the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act laws (1882-1943) on four generations of Chin’s family as they attempted to ...

Ava Chin, aka the "Urban Forager," is an experienced master of the quest. Raised in Queens, New York, by a single mother and loving Chinese grandparents, Chin takes off on an emotional journey to make sense of her family ties and romantic failures when her beloved grandmother becomes seriously ill.

Ava Chin is the author of Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming (Penguin Press, 2023), an American Library Association Notable Book, and the award-winning Eating Wildly (Simon & Schuster, 2014), which won the the 2015 M.F.K. Fisher Book Award for excellence in food writing. Mott Street was a Best Book of ...

2023年12月27日 · Ava Chin是第五代美国华裔，纽约人文学院的研究员和董事会成员，拥有南加州大学博士学位，约翰霍普金斯大学写作研讨会硕士学位和约翰霍普金斯大学写作研讨会硕士学位。

2023年5月31日 · Through decades of painstaking research, the fifth-generation New Yorker discovered the stories of how her ancestors bore and resisted the weight of the Chinese Exclusion laws in the U.S. – and how...

2022年11月11日 · AVA CHIN, a 5th generation Chinese American New Yorker, is the author of the nonfiction narrative MOTT STREET: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming (April 2023, Penguin Press), an intimate portrayal of the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act laws (1882-1943) on four generations of Chin’s family as they attempted to ...

2025年2月26日 · Professor Ava Chin (GC/College of Staten Island, Biography and Memoir, American Studies) was awarded a grant from CUNY’s Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) for her forthcoming book, Queen of Spring, a follow-up to her award-winning memoir Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming (2023), a PEN ...

Ava Chin, a 5th generation New Yorker, is the author of the award-winning Mott Street (Penguin Press), a recipient of the 2024 Nonfiction Book Award from the Chinese American Librarians Association, and Eating Wildly (Simon & Schuster), which won the 2015 M.F.K. Fisher Book Award for excellence in food writing. Mott Street, an ALA Notable Book ...

AVA CHIN, a 5th generation Chinese American New Yorker, is the author of the award-winning nonfiction narrative MOTT STREET: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming (Penguin Press, 2023), an intimate portrayal of the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act laws (1882-1943) on four generations of her family as they attempted ...