I have a very large, close Filipino family, and she epitomized the warm, welcoming, occasionally overbearing (but lovingly so!) feeling I associate with my childhood. KG: My second book, “Sanpaku,” is a love letter to my Lola, who I was very close to growing up. JRC: How has your own identity as an Asian American influenced your writing? The diversity of your readership? Then in 2018 I published my second book, Sanpaku, through BOOM! Studios. In 2015 that project was turned into a book published by Penguin. While I was there, I took advantage of all the free literary events there and started a blog of author portraits called Last Night’s Reading. I was born in Houston, Texas, and then for college I moved to New York City, where I lived for almost a decade. Kate Gavino (KG): I’m an author and illustrator currently living in Paris, France. Jaena Rae Cabrera (JRC): Please introduce yourself and briefly describe your literary work and career path to date. She is interviewed here by APALA member Jaena Rae Cabrera. You can find her work at Powell’s, your local bookstore, or you local library. And the result is full of twists and revelations that surprise not only the reader but the women themselves.Ĭharming, wry, and with fantastic black-and-white illustrations, A Career in Books is a modern ode to Rona Jaffe’s The Best of Everything, and perfect for fans of Good Talk, Younger, and The Bold Type, as readers chart the paths of three Asian-American women trying to break through the world of books with hilarious, incisive, and heartbreaking results.Kate Gavino is an author and illustrator, whose books include Last Night’s Reading and Sanpaku.
great? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ They know they're paying their dues and the challenges they meet (Shirin's boss just assumes she knows Cantonese, Nina cannot get promoted by sheer force of will, and Silvia has to deal with daily microaggressions) are just part of “a career in books.” When they meet their elderly neighbor, Veronica Vo, and discover she's a Booker Prize winner dubbed the “Tampax Tolstoy” by the press, each woman finds a thread of inspiration from Veronica’s life to carry on her own path. Shirin, Nina, and Silvia have just gotten their first jobs in publishing, at a University Press, a traditional publisher, and a trust-fund kid's "indie" publisher, respectively. It's for those who wanted a literary career even in the face of systemic racism, who dealt with the unique challenges of coming from an immigrant family, and whose group chat is their lifeline.
It's for those who were taken aback by that first paycheck. A Career in Books is a graphic novel for everyone who's wanted to "work with books" and had NO idea what it entailed.
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