Posted November 11, 2009 by Lauren in Client News and Reviews
Mass Book Award
Acceptance Speech
11.04.09
Thank you…
I am deeply humbled and honored by this prestigious award.
First of all, I want to thank Mass Center for the Book, the State Library of Massachusetts and their supporting organizations for creating this award, and all the panelists for their hard work. I am also happy and honored to have with us today many librarians from across the State. Thank you for being the guardians of our time- honored institution, the library.
I have always hoped there is a universal massage in my memoir, since at its surface, my book is a personal story that happened in a foreign land, and under very different social and political circumstances.
As some of you may know, Snow Falling in Spring is the story of my childhood during China’s Cultural...
