Author’s Forum: The Fortunes: A Conversation with Peter Ho Davies and Douglas Trevor

Peter Ho Davies, U-M English professor, reads from his new book, followed by a conversation with Douglas Trevor, U-M English professor, Q & A with the audience, and book signing.

Inhabiting four lives, three inspired by real historical characters, “The Fortunes” captures and capsizes more than a century of our history, recasting the story of America through the lives of Chinese Americans. It brilliantly reimagines the multigenerational novel, looking through the prismatic fractures of immigrant experience, and showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive as much through love as blood.