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Jennifer Lin

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Born
in Philadelphia, The United States
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Genre
History, Biography, Religion

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Gish Jen, Lisa See, Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Willa Cather, Pear ...more

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November 2014


I was born with the reporter’s gene. It’s all I ever wanted to do from the time I was in high school and listening to a young local radio reporter named Andrea Mitchell (yes, that Andrea Mitchell) interviewing my father about soaring health-care costs. I had the good fortune of working for one of the finest newspapers in the business, The Philadelphia Inquirer, but always as a reporter, never an editor. Reporters had more fun. There’s nothing like the rush of a big breaking story. I worked as a correspondent in New York, Washington, D.C., and Beijing. My son and daughter were tots when I told them, “We’re moving to China!” They thought Beijing was somewhere west of Philadelphia on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. My husband, Bill Stieg, uprooted ...more

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Jennifer Lin My father calls this book my obsession and I have to admit, he’s right. In fact, I can pinpoint the precise moment it started. It was the first mornin…moreMy father calls this book my obsession and I have to admit, he’s right. In fact, I can pinpoint the precise moment it started. It was the first morning of my first trip to China: June 18, 1979. We were staying in the childhood home of my father, a doctor from Philadelphia who left Shanghai in 1949. Everything was going great until an uncle pulled my father aside and whispered, “Do you have any idea what happened to us?” Truth was, he had been clueless. Their lives had been rough, but we had no way of knowing it.

When we returned home to Philadelphia, my father didn’t dwell on the past. He moved on with his life. But I couldn’t let go. Maybe it was my nature as a reporter. I needed to unravel the history of my family.
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Happy to share my second "starred review," this one from Booklist.

"Richly detailed and informed by fascinating characters, Lin’s story is altogether a compelling and inspiring one that is sure to interest a wide range of readers."

For the entire review, see:

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