Today is one of my favorite holidays--the Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Festival. Yesterday I took my kids to Chinatown in Chicago so we could buy mooncakes, the traditional pastry enjoyed on this holiday across the Chinese diaspora.But my favorite thing about this holiday … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Heart of the City
Earlier this year I read My Father's Paradise (Algonquin, 2008) Ariel Sabar's thrilling memoir of his Jewish Kurdish Iraqi father. As Sabar writes in his next book, Heart of the City (DeCapo, 2011), My Father's Paradise is as much a tribute to his father as Heart of the City is … [Read more...]
A summer of David Henry Hwang
One of the highlights of my summer was attending a series of three plays written by David Henry Hwang. My husband and I kicked off the series in July with Chinglish.This play told the story of an American businessman who travels to Guiyang, China to drum up some clients … [Read more...]
Book of the week: Feeding on Dreams
In full back-to-school spirit, I chose to read Ariel Dorfman's latest memoir, Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) last week. It's not the lightest of books, but one I'd highly recommend if you have a penchant for international … [Read more...]
Fall reading list
Now that it's September, summer is quickly coming to an end. The kids are back in school and the days are getting shorter. To help get through the coming cold months, I'm excited to read a few new books this fall.Alexandra Fuller's new Africa memoir is probably the book I'm … [Read more...]
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