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Green Island
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Water Ghosts
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Thinking about Taiwan in the Trump Era
Some thoughts I had about Taiwan in these times:
If you are in NY, please come to my event tomorrow 2/17 at the Asian American Writers Workshop:
or 2/18 in Brooklyn:
Both are FREE but require a reservation, so please rsvp! Read more of this blog post »
If you are in NY, please come to my event tomorrow 2/17 at the Asian American Writers Workshop:
or 2/18 in Brooklyn:
Both are FREE but require a reservation, so please rsvp! Read more of this blog post »
“Maybe this is what it meant to be a citizen of a place - bonded to each other by the histories thrust upon us.”
― Green Island
― Green Island
“We are curious creatures, we Taiwanese. Orphans. Eventually, orphans must choose their own names and write their own stories. The beauty of orphanhood is the blank slate.”
― Green Island
― Green Island
“I understand,� she says, and then she quotes Du Fu: “The country is broken, but the mountains and rivers remain.� Her eyes flash; he catches sight of the fire in this modest woman. “We are the mountains and rivers,� he says, impressed. “No matter what the country is called.”
― Green Island
― Green Island
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Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patrick Cottrell (Patti Yumi Cottrell at the time of publication)
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| 2025 Reading Chal...: ~~~Wei's Reading Challenge 2016~~~ | 36 | 143 | Dec 31, 2016 07:45PM | |
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| A Million More Pages: ☮️The Good,the Bad,and the DNF☮️Teleporter Team 2☮️60's | 445 | 78 | Dec 30, 2017 02:39PM | |
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K.M. Weiland's Read 100 Books in 2016 Challenge
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So here's something kinda fun that just happened: After learning that I read about 100 books every year, one of my readers teased me into promising h ...more
Cheers,
Jason
Shawna Yang Ryan's LOCKE 1928, which weaves history and mythology around
a community of Chinese immigrants in a small California town in 1928,
exploring the lives of a beautiful young prostitute in love with the
preacher's daughter; a husband and wife mysteriously reunited after ten
years; a lovesick brothel owner who can see into the past and the
future, and the ghosts haunting them all, to Jane Fleming at Penguin
Press, at auction, by Daniel Lazar at Writers House (NA).