The summer hasn't started yet and I'm already knee-deep in college preparations for Jake. We've signed up for his classes, laughed through his Mandarin placement test (all a guess to him), and decided that he should study simplified characters rather than traditional ones because … [Read more...]
Treasures from a past life
For a while now, I've been thinking about the Chinese textbooks I used in college 25 years ago and how outdated they must seem now. I knew I'd kept at least one, and had looked through some bookshelves but it wasn't until this evening that I found one. And next to it was a … [Read more...]
An evening with Anna Michels
Tonight I attended a fun book event for my Good Chinese Wife editor! Anna Michels is my editor at Sourcebooks, but today is the publication date of her first novel, 26 Kisses (Simon Pulse, 2016). Isn't the cover just perfect?Her book is a young adult novel and sounds like … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
So yesterday was high school graduation for number one son. Our weekend will be packed with parties and other events, but I wanted to take a moment here to reflect on something I'd written in Good Chinese Wife way before Jake ever started high school.It was a scene in the … [Read more...]
Good Chinese Wife in Italian
I just learned that the Italian edition of Good Chinese Wife will be out on May 26! Check out the cover!According to my non-existent Italian, I think the title translates to A Brave Chinese Wife. It's so much fun to see how another culture interprets my book. For more … [Read more...]
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