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Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is a New York-based journalist and author of Sarong Party Girls (William Morrow, 2016) as well as A Tiger In The Kitchen: A Memoir of Food & Family (Hyperion, 2011). She was a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, In Style magazine and the Baltimore Sun. Her stories have also appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Washington Post, Bon Appetit, among other places. In this episode, she talks about the glitzy and morally complicated world of Singapore's Sarong Party Girls as well as her career in journalism and how she's learned to appreciate her culture. This episode was recorded at Lesley University during Cheryl's guest author visit for the 2019 summer MFA in Creative Writing residency. Faculty and fellow author Tony Eprile speaks with Cheryl. For more information, visit our episode page.