Join memoirist, Susan Kiyo Ito, for a discussion of her book I Would Meet You Anywhere, with Winchester librarian, writer and adoptee activist Tony Corsentino.

Susan and Tony will have a conversation about adoption, identity, family secrets, public policies that impact adopted people, and more. The book depicts Susan's adoption by Japanese American parents, her search and ongoing relationship with her Japanese birth mother, and the many unanswered questions that continue. Themes in the book include family secrets, identity, biracial experience, reproductive justice, adoption and finding empowerment through writing and community.

It may be helpful to read the book in advance, but not required. The book is available wherever books are sold, and books will be available for purchase at the event. You can also borrow a copy from the Library.

About the Author

Susan Kiyo Ito is the author of the memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, published by the Ohio State University Press; it was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award. She co-edited the literary anthology A Ghost At Heart's Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption. Her work has appeared in The Writer, Hyphen, Literary Mama, Catapult, Hyphen, The Bellevue Literary Review, Agni, Guernica, and elsewhere. She has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, The Mesa Refuge, Hedgebrook and Blue Mountain Center. Her theatrical adaption of Untold, stories of reproductive stigma, was produced at Brava Theater. She teaches at the Mills College (Oakland) campus of Northeastern University.