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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher of Grove/Atlantic Inc, and the author Fae Myenne Ng for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Ng's memoir is illuminating to read. As a fan of her previous work most notably, Bone, readers will be delighted to learn the personal history of the author and her life. Ng writes about how the Chinese Exclusion and the Confession Program affected her family. Ng's memoir manages to accomplish what most memoirs try to do which is humanizing and fleshing out one character within her life. Ng exceeds those expectations by finding a way to characterize the entirety of her whole family within the scope of the memoir. One of my highly anticipated books of the year, and I'm glad I had an ARC of this memoir. ( ) nonfiction - memoir/family history by award-winning Chinese-American novelist. The eldest daughter in a family that would become divided over time, she relates her parents' experiences through the Exclusion and Confession periods, how these policies have left so many "orphan bachelors" - Chinese laborers whose wives and families were prohibited from joining them, how they have lived out their lives as solitary men arguing (very colorfully in their Toishanese and Cantonese) over chess boards in 1960s SF Chinatown. The second half of the book deals more with Fae and her siblings' lives as their parents' marriage dissolves along with the overall health of the family and their relationships. I am doing a poor job of describing the book, but I loved the writing style (another demonstration of the author's skill in building a story) and also learned quite a bit -- Exclusion laws get mentioned a lot in the books I've been reading but not Confession. I also feel like these stories could also easily belong to my family; though the dates and places don't quite overlap, it's easy to imagine similar events happening to my elders. Great book, thank you and more, please! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"From the bestselling, award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng's Orphan Bachelors is a singular memoir of her beloved San Francisco's Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. Beloved by readers for her "incantatory" (New York Times) novels and their luminous depictions of Chinatown, Fae Myenne Ng's new memoir is a personal, timely portrait of the same storied place. In pre-Communist China, Ng's father memorized a book of lies and gained entry to the United States as a stranger's son, evading the Exclusion Act, an immigration law which he believed was meant to extinguish the Chinese American family. During the McCarthy era, he entered the Confession Program only to have his citizenship revoked. Ng was her parents' precocious firstborn. A child raised by a seafaring father and a seamstress mother, by Chinatown and its legendary Orphan Bachelors-men without wives or children, Exclusion's living legacy. Exclusion's shadow followed Ng from the back alleys of Chinatown in the sixties, to Manhattan in the eighties, to the high desert of California in the nineties, until her return home in the 2000s when the deaths of her youngest brother and her father devastated the family. As a child, Ng believed her father's lies; as an adult, she returned to her childhood home to write his truth. Orphan Bachelors weaves together the history of one doomed family; an elegy for brothers estranged and for elders lost; and insights into writing between languages and teaching between generations. In this powerful remembrance, Ng gives voice to her ancestors, her Orphan Bachelors, and her own inner self, howling in Cantonese, impossible to translate but determined to be heard"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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