Last week Grace Lin's new picture book, Thanking the Moon: Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival (Knopf, 2010) came out.And just in time, too.On September 22nd, people across Asia and in Chinese communities around the world will gather with their families to celebrate … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man
The grass is always greener. People always want what they don't have, right?In Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man (Little, Brown, 2010), literary agent Bill Clegg seems to have it all: a rise so quickly through the New York literary world that by the age of 30 he opens his … [Read more...]
Book of the week–House of Stone
I keep finding more narratives about Zimbabwe. Bring it on, I say. I just love reading about the transformation of Rhodesia into Zimbabwe and the hope many people had thirty years ago when Robert Mugabe took office.If only things had gone differently.This week I read … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Petals from the Sky
This week I read Mingmei Yip's beautiful novel, Petals from the Sky (Kensington Books, 2010). I felt drawn to her book before I even opened it. She'd taught at my graduate school alma mater, The Chinese University of Hong, and now lives in New York, my favorite city in the … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Hong Kong
My 1990 Hong Kong retrospective wouldn't be complete without a book review. While I didn't read Jan Morris's Hong Kong (Vintage, 1997) this week, I did read an earlier version back in 1990.For anyone who's been to Hong Kong or who wants to learn more about it, Morris's Hong … [Read more...]
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