Asako Serizawa with Akil Kumarasamy
Published in January at the height of the pandemic, Asako Serizawa's debut novel, Inheritors, compounds stories of multiple generations of people experiencing versions of the same struggles in Asia and in the U.S. "Each character in these stories is occupied and occupier, trapped in a moral and existential crisis that's unnerving because it's evergreen, because the nature of human tragedy is our own making and the lessons we keep learning never seem to take," writes NPR's Marcela Davison Aviles. Join Serizawa for a reading alongside Akil Kumarasamy (Half Gods) in honor the novel's paperback release.