The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is pleased to welcome poet Adrienne Su as she discusses her new work of poetry, Peach State. Su will be in conversation with bestselling author Aimee Nezhukumatathil. This event is free and open to the public. Every purchase of Peach State through the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. will be signed by Adrienne Su.

About the Book:

Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author’s hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region’s invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused mainly on food and cooking, these poems explore the city’s transformation from the mid-twentieth century to today, as seen and shaped by Chinese Americans. The poems are set in restaurants, home kitchens, grocery stores, and the houses of friends and neighbors. Often employing forms—sonnet, villanelle, sestina, palindrome, ghazal, rhymed stanzas—they also mirror the constant negotiation with tradition that marks both immigrant and Southern experience.