Photo Friday
Just one more photo from Wednesday’s reading. My friend Yuting brought her kids to the bookstore and took this photo of me. I’m signing a book and talking at the same time–and art I’m still trying to...
View ArticleMore book sightings
Good Chinese Wife has been out for four weeks now and it’s still great fun to receive photos from friends near and far.My friend Maria found the book in Ontario at a Chapters Bookstore!Here’s Good...
View ArticleEast Coast Book Tour
Tom became a househusband for a couple days this past week as I took the Good Chinese Wife book tour out east. I made it to the venue, 5C Cafe, with one hour to spare. My generous cousins Trudy and...
View ArticleBook of the week–Only One Year
Ever since my daughter started reading chapter books this summer, I feel like I’ve become well-versed in middle grade literature. There’s been a push for more diversity in kids lit and I’m all too...
View ArticleLee Kofman
I first came across Lee Kofman thanks to a mutual friend in China, Stuart Beaton. Based in Australia, Lee was born in the Soviet Union and grew up in Israel. She’s the author of three novels in Hebrew...
View ArticleReturn to Hong Kong, Day 1
After a whirlwind trip to Hong Kong, I’m back in Chicago and excited to share photos and highlights from just four days in my favorite city. I hope you enjoy this post and the ones to follow. Here’s...
View ArticleReturn to Hong Kong, Day 2
On our second day in Hong Kong, I brought Tom to the Jewish cemetery, which wasn’t too far from our hotel. To get there, we walked past cemeteries of all the major religions. The Muslim cemetery was...
View ArticleReturn to Hong Kong, Day 3
For decades I’ve been obsessed with the concept of the Kowloon Walled City, a slum of cramped apartment buildings that surrounded an old Chinese yamen, or government building, not too far from the old...
View ArticleReturn to Hong Kong, Day 4
For our last day in Hong Kong, Tom and I met my friends Erica and Jacqueline to tour the Western District. This is another area we didn’t see on our trip to Hong Kong two years ago. We took a short...
View ArticlePhoto Friday
It’s hard to believe Tom and I left for Hong Kong two weeks ago tomorrow. Or that we’ve been home for a week.It was such a magical trip that we’re still talking about it just as much as we talk about...
View ArticleHelp wanted
Even though I obviously have no problem promoting Good Chinese Wife, I have been rather lax about asking for reviews.Until now.If you’ve read Good Chinese Wife and of course have time, I would love if...
View ArticleTreasures from a bygone era
Writing a book like Good Chinese Wife forced me to relive many difficult events in my past. So when I dug out my wedding qipao from the summer I was 24, I had mixed feelings.Wedding Day, Hidden River,...
View ArticleNew Year’s Thanks
My daughter Rachel made this card for Tom and me today, and I just love it!Although I’ve only been to Hong Kong twice since all my kids were born, these trips have obviously left a mark on Rachel. I...
View ArticleBook of the week–A Chinese Wedding
Twenty years ago I moved to Hong Kong and quickly splurged on a book I spotted at the South China Morning Post Bookstore at the Star Ferry. It was Simon Elegant’s novel, A Chinese Wedding (Piatkus...
View ArticleIntroducing Fused Society
I am so excited to introduce on my website a new publication! Created by Eva Cohen and Mai Huynh, Fused Society showcases “essays, creative writing and art by awesome, unique individuals from around...
View ArticleMy dad in Hong Kong
While I’ve written a bit about my mom’s family and their trips to Hong Kong starting in the 1960s, my dad also spent some time in Hong Kong visiting me over the years. He was always a big city person...
View ArticleHong Kong 1996
I love finding old photos that I haven’t seen in years, maybe decades. And when those photos were taken in Hong Kong, even better. Before the days of the camera phone, it took a special effort to take...
View ArticlePhoto Friday
I recently rediscovered this photo and at first glance it looks like I could have been with Jake somewhere in China. But in fact it was Chicago, where I started taking him for dim sum almost as soon as...
View ArticleThe house on Newhall Street
I was so excited to recently find these old photos from my house in San Francisco. If you’ve read Good Chinese Wife, you may recall some of these rooms. They were where I spent the last two years of my...
View ArticlePhoto Friday
I was at my mom’s last week and found some unmarked negatives that, at first glance, looked like photos from Hong Kong. Without prints to accompany them, I had no idea, though. So I brought the...
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