Friday, October 16, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
"Tseng is a compelling storyteller and an elegant stylist who approaches her stories a little like a detective and a little like a scholar, entirely herself. At bottom, this book asks a question, why am I like this, and these essays all offer different answers. For her and for you.” ––Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night "Reading Mixed Feelings is a powerful, emotionally insightful, and profoundly gorgeous experience.” —Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh, author of unMothered, unTongued "This is a multiracial song of self, song of family, and song of the future, an amalgamation of fury and love…Through Tseng’s masterful and lyrical prose, we find that where there are wounds, there is also wonder.” ––Tina Chang, author of Lion “Jennifer Tseng's iconoclastic essay collection gives us a through-line of frustrating, sexy, and heart-breaking characters in whom to fully invest while engaging her life-lessons and shrewd cultural analysis." ––J. Vanessa Lyon, author of Blackness Thirteen Ways: Art, Life, & the Revisions of a Mulatta Lesbian. Jennifer Tseng is the author of three award-winning poetry books—The Man with My Face, Red Flower, White Flower, and Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive—; a collection of flash fiction, The Passion of Woo and Isolde, winner of an Eric Hoffer Book Award and finalist for a CLMP Firecracker Award in Fiction; and a novel, Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness, finalist for the PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the New England Book Award. She is an associate professor of literature & creative writing at University of California, Santa Cruz. You can read essays from her forthcoming collection, Mixed Feelings, on The Paris Review Daily [https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/08/28/portrait-of-our-white-mother-sitting-at-a-chinese-mens-table/]. Eric C. Wat is the author of four books, including Daddy Issues: Stories (2025 winner of Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction), Love Your Asian Body: AIDS Activism in Los Angeles (2023 winner of the Outstanding Book Award in History from the Association of Asian American Studies) and the Los Angeles Times-bestselling novel SWIM. His second novel manuscript was a finalist in the Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series in 2022.