Today is the publication date of my agent-sister, Dorcas Cheng-Tozun's debut book, Start, Love, Repeat: How to Stay in Love With Your Entrepreneur in a Crazy Start-Up World (Center Street, 2018). I've known about her book deal for a while now and have loved following her … [Read more...]
Book of week–Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve
I'm not a perfect parent. And I'm not an expert in education. Years ago when I was first divorced and raising my toddler as a single a mother, I didn't speak Mandarin to him even though he spent his first two years hearing it from his grandparents (for the first year) and his … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Windfall
Okay, so I admit I bought Diksha Basu's The Windfall because I love the cover. If I ever have a book cover with a customized illustration, I'll have arrived for sure. I also love the font. The whole thing is fantastic. Also, Diksha Basu has this amazing write-up in the New York … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Shenzhen
I studied French for 8 years in junior high, high school, and college, and honestly haven't had much chance to use to it apart from clearing customs in 1991 Phnom Penh and on the streets of Saigon that same summer. I've been to France a few times in recent times, but could barely … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy For A City
Although this is a short book, it's one to savor.I wasn't born and raised in Hong Kong, but felt I could relate to a great part of Xu Xi's story in Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy For A Hero (Penguin, 2017). I've lived there a couple times and that always seems so complicated when I … [Read more...]
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