06/09/2026
📣 Memoirs in Conversation: Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho and Keiko Honda
📍Dunbar Branch, VPL
🗓️ Sat, June 13
🕰️ 2:00-3:30PM
Join us for a conversation between Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho and Keiko Honda, as they discuss their work creating memoirs that explore shifting identities and create sense and beauty out of the struggle and triumph of forging an unexpected path.
Chinatown Wonders is honoured to be invited as the bookseller. What a treat to witness this special conversation on Dunbar!
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How do you reconcile having parents who would do anything for you except stay with you? In her memoir The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street, Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho traces the emotional fault lines of an “astronaut” family, parents and children divided by an ocean amid shifting global powers, and her struggles against silence and ambiguous loss to find a sense of home – between places, cultural norms, and identities.
Keiko Honda was a successful cancer researcher when illness forced her departure from a career she spent twelve years building. In Accidental Blooms and Hidden Flowers, she explores the way that transformation and tragedy would ultimately provide the opportunity to live a life dedicated to community, friendship and art, as well as the continually evolving process of self-discovery as a mother, Japanese immigrant, survivor and artist.
