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Deanna Fei
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One year ago, a very different scene was unfolding at Madison Square Garden, one that in retrospect shows how badly we needed Jeremy Lin way before we'd ever heard of him. And by "we," I don't just mean Knicks fans.At yet another dull game in the midst of another dreary season, three Asian American men, one with his young son,were sitting near my husband. (I was pregnant with my now 5-month-ol... read more »
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A Thread of Sky
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Lovely, lovely writing; References Alzheimer's as "brain plaques and fibrillary tangles," "strands caught in knots." Her style is wonderfully literary, yet compelling about sisters, mother, and grandmother's return to China for a trip; and relatio...
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It is to present-day China that Chinese/American Irene decides to take her 3 daughters, her Chinese mother, and Chinese sister to visit. The chapters alternately focus on each of the 6 females with their individual problematic lives, so the charac...
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This is a wonderful, touching and powerful book. The characters are wonderfully flawed, passionate, beautiful and human. I identified so deeply with the immigrant experience of the mothers and daughters. Fei is a skilled writer who is by turns lyr...
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“A love gone bad, a sea of bitterness: such an everyday thing. As ordinary as the tide, and perhaps as relentless. But tides turned, too.”
― Deanna Fei, A Thread of Sky
― Deanna Fei, A Thread of Sky
“And a blank page was quite beautiful on its own, she'd found. There were already so many words, so many voices in the world. She flinched at contributing to the cacophony.”
― Deanna Fei, A Thread of Sky
― Deanna Fei, A Thread of Sky
“Here it was like wind or rain, a sign of the seasons, just part of the weather-- another element of this country that took hold of her, even as it eluded her grasp”
― Deanna Fei, A Thread of Sky
― Deanna Fei, A Thread of Sky
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