A couple of weeks ago I was talking on the phone with my friend Jean in New York. She told me about a memoir she was reading: Eddie Huang's Fresh Off the Boat (Random House, 2013). For 20 years Jean has been giving me amazing book recommendations, so I picked it up this … [Read more...]
Saturday night hotpot
Tonight was a frigid one in Chicago, so Tom, Jake, and I headed up to Chinatown for mouth-numbing hotpot. It had been years since I'd had hotpot, so long that 14-year-old Jake didn't remember the last time we went about seven years earlier. (Years before that, my dorm cafeteria … [Read more...]
On the eve of the great escape
It's hard to believe that on this Friday 13 years ago it was the eve of my great escape from San Francisco. It's like an anniversary in a way, a day when I regained command of my life that had somehow spun wildly out of control several years before.I took this photo with my … [Read more...]
The Next Big Thing
When Dana Sachs asked me to be one of her writers in The Next Big Thing, an author interview project, I immediately thought back to a trip I took to San Francisco back in 2009. I was on a ferry from Napa back to San Francisco, sitting next to my husband Tom but fully engrossed in … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Secret of the Nightingale Palace
I'm so excited to review Dana Sachs' latest novel, The Secret of the Nightingale Palace (William Morrow, 2013), on her publication day! Congratulations, Dana!From the start, I was swept away by this complex, heart-wrenching story. The chapters alternate between the present … [Read more...]
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