The Snakehead, with Patrick Radden Keefe

Patrick Radden Keefe will talk about his acclaimed new book, The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream. This brilliant account examines America's complicated relationship with immigration through the story of Cheng Chui Ping, known as Sister Ping, who built a multi-million-dollar empire as a "snakehead," smuggling Chinese immigrants into America. With the immigration debate still simmering, this exploration of how far people will go to achieve the American dream is a must-read. Keefe is a writer who focuses on international security, immigration, espionage, and the globalization of crime. He is a Fellow at The Century Foundation and a Project Leader at the World Policy Institute. His articles and Op-Eds have appeared in the New Yorker, Slate, the New York Times Magazine and Op-Ed page, the New York Review of Books and other publications. He is the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He is also a non-practicing lawyer and a member of the New York State Bar. Co-hosted with the Sigur Center for Asian Studies