by Shawna Yang Ryan Penguin Books, 2010. Locke, California, 1928. Three bedraggled Chinese women appear out of the mist in a small Chinese farming town on the Sacramento River. Two are unknown to its residents, while the third is the long-lost wife of Richard Fong, the handsome manager of the local gambling parlor. As the [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Water Ghosts
Posted in China, Diaspora, Globalization, History, Uncategorized, tagged Asian American, California, Chinese, fiction, Locke 1928, Novels, Sacramento, Shawna Yang Ryan, Water Ghosts on January 27, 2012 |
Water the Moon
Posted in Poetry, Southeast Asia, tagged Fiona Sze-Lorrain, London, Paris, Poetry, singapore, Water the Moon on January 25, 2012 |
by Fiona Sze-Lorrain Marick Press Press, 2010. Water the Moon demonstrates Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s depth as a poet of international background. Her poem “Moon” is particularly noteworthy . In five stanzas she reveals the anxieties of moving to a new country repeatedly and captures just how much something so dead as the moon can haunt you from your [...]
Drifting House
Posted in Asia, Diaspora, Fiction, Globalization, Korea, Southeast Asia, Uncategorized, tagged Drifting House, Korea, Korean, Korean-American, Krys Lee, Literature, short story, vignette on January 18, 2012 |
by Krys Lee Viking/Penguin, 2012. Spanning the Korean peninsula and the United States, from the postwar era to contemporary times, Krys Lee’s stunning fiction debut, Drifting House, illuminates people torn between the traumas of their collective past and the indignities and sorrows of their present. In the title story, children escaping famine in North Korea [...]
