READING
The immigrant experience is something many of us have a lot invested in lately. Instead of forming knee-jerk opinions, it might help to spend time considering what that experience is actually like. Ha Jin (author of the National Book Award-winning "Waiting") reads today from his new novel, "A Free Life," which follows the journey of members of a Chinese family who flee their country in the wake of the Tiananmen Square incident and try to start over in America. The series of events is based in some part on Jin's own experience as an immigrant studying here during the same period. 6 p.m. $5. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Ave., Brookline. 617-566-6660. brooklinebooksmith.com
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