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Serica Storytellers with SAPAAC: Yiming Ma | These Memories Do Not Belong To Us
Join us and the Stanford Asian Pacific American Alumni Club as we interview talented author Yiming Ma on his debut novel and his thoughts on technology evolving – and possibly, corrupting – in this modern society.
Sep 30, 2025, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Zoom Online
Register Directly on Zoom or below: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/aeqi24FYR4Swm7Dcwzppgw
What the critics say:
"Mesmerizing. A deeply felt and meticulously crafted novel that entrances the reader from the first sentence to its last."
JASON MOTT, National Book Award-winning author of Hell of a Book
"This isn't just a novel. It's a revolutionary experiment in how our memories and histories can save us. By turns heartbreaking and eerily prescient, Ma's ambitious debut breaks open the hidden parts of us and scatters them across the night sky for you to discover."
SEQUOIA NAGAMATSU, author of How High We Go in the Dark
"Chilling, poignant, and uncomfortably timely, Ma's braided memory dispatches explore a future in which the shifting concepts of safety, loyalty, and truth lead nowhere except condemnation."
TESSA HULLS, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Feeding Ghosts
"Stunning. A deeply imaginative debut of a near-future dystopia, profoundly humane in its exploration of memory and the stories that make us who we are."
VINCENT LAM, Giller Prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
"Yiming Ma's gripping, kaleidoscopic debut marries our current anxiety around surveillance, technology, personal data, and geopolitical unrest with a world where stories remain a tool for connection and revolution."
LILLIAN LI, author of Number One Chinese Restaurant
"Extraordinary. A melancholic mosaic of lives brilliantly bearing witness to the ways memories shape and reshape individuals, nations, histories, and futures."
AIJIANG, Nebula and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Linghun
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