Thursday, August 3, 2017 - 6:00pm - 7:30pmSusan Blumberg-Kason and Sonali Dev will discuss writing as mothers, setting their stories overseas, and why we need diverse books. … [Read more...]
Hot off the press!
Last year I wrote the introduction for this classic Chinese text written by Ban Zhao, China's first female historian. Camphor Press reprinted the book and asked me to write the introduction because I'd quoted from Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls in my memoir.I'd … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The 100-Pound Gangster
Back in the late 1990s, I lived in the most dangerous neighborhood in San Francisco. The only familiar retail outlet was a Walgreen's pharmacy a few blocks away. The neighborhood had been an old Maltese enclave, but only one Italian grocery remained from those years. The main … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Fortunes
I recently read Peter Ho Davies newish novel, The Fortunes (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) and cannot get it out of my mind. It's one of those books that will stay with you for a long, long time. I think the most astonishing thing is that Ho Davies, who was born and raised in … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Collected Hong Kong Stories
I'm a big fan of books published by Blacksmith Books in Hong Kong. What's not to love? The press publishes mostly non-fiction narratives, memoirs, food, photography, and other art and culture titles pertaining to Hong Kong. But every once in a while it releases a novel or … [Read more...]
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