Playwright and Educator Alvin Eng's New Memoir 'Our Laundry, Our Town'

All Of It with Alison Stewart | May 31, 2022

Our Laundry, Our Town is playwright and educator Alvin Eng's new memoir about growing up as a first generation Chinese-American in Flushing, Queens in the 1970's, before the neighborhood was a center of Chinese cultural life in New York. Eng joins to discuss the book and his journey.

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