I don’t live in a remarkable house and therefore haven’t treated it very well. My kids are free to play in any room and we just wait each Monday for our cleaners to straighten things out. Because of the mess and the clutter, I never feel like fresh flowers or other nice things go … [Read more...]
Book of the week—Half a Yellow Sun
My friend and book pen pal (where we send each other more books than letters) Christine sent me this book last year and it’d been on my to read shelf forever, it seemed, even though I’d read Americanah by the same author almost as soon as Christine sent me that. I guess I got … [Read more...]
A visit to the Museum of Chinese in America
Earlier this month when I took two of my kids to visit my first-born, I took the little ones to the Museum of Chinese in America, a place I'd wanted to visit for a long time but somehow hadn't gotten around to until then. It's in an unassuming building, so if I didn't notice the … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Little Red Guard
I read this book earlier this year, just before the Lunar New Year, and wasn't sure I'd be as captivated by another Cultural Revolution memoir as I've been in the past. You know when you've read so much about one topic that you can't possibly think there's anything more one can … [Read more...]
Interview with Amy Thomas, author of Brooklyn in Love
I'm extremely excited to interview author Amy Thomas, author of Paris, My Sweet (Sourcebooks, 2012) and now a new memoir, Brooklyn in Love: A Delicious Memoir of Food, Family, and Finding Yourself (Sourcebooks, 2018). We not only have the same publisher, but are also returned … [Read more...]
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