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Fae Myenne Ng

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5+ Werke 637 Mitglieder 26 Rezensionen Lieblingsautor von 2 Lesern

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Beinhaltet die Namen: Fae Myenne, Fae Myenne Ng, Fae Mayenne Ng

Bildnachweis: Fae Myenne Ng Brooklyn Book Festival Borough Hall By annulla from Brooklyn, United States - IMG_8054, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82841464

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Granta 54: Best of Young American Novelists (1996) — Mitwirkender — 237 Exemplare
The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology (1989) — Mitwirkender — 65 Exemplare
Best Food Writing 2000 (2000) — Mitwirkender — 60 Exemplare

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Gebräuchlichste Namensform
Fae Myenne Ng
Geburtstag
1956-12-02
Geschlecht
female
Nationalität
USA
Geburtsort
San Francisco, California, USA
Wohnorte
San Francisco, California, USA
New York, New York, USA
Ausbildung
University of California, Berkeley (BA)
Columbia University (MFA)
Berufe
writer
lecturer
Preise und Auszeichnungen
Guggenheim Fellowship (2009)
Granta's Best of Young American Novelists (1996)
American Book Award
Agent
Neil Olson (Donadio & Olson Associates)
Kurzbiographie
Fae Myenne Ng (pronounced "ing") is an American novelist, and short story writer. She is a first-generation Chinese American author whose debut novel Bone told the story of three Chinese American daughters growing up in her real childhood hometown of San Francisco Chinatown.

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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!
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reader1009 | Jun 11, 2023 |
Here's what you need to understand first and foremost. This is a story built around grief. Ona, the middle sister, jumped off the M floor of the Nam. M happens to be the thirteenth floor. Unlucky, unforgivable thirteen. Everything that happens to her surviving family centers on this one fact. Ona jumped. Everything is marked by the time Before Ona Jumped and the time After Ona Jumped. Confessional: I am like that, too. When I hear a specific date, I quickly do the math to determine if it is A.D.D. (after dad's death) or before - B.D.D. Leila is the eldest of three daughters and the one most constrained by old China values versus modern American China. She is aware of the boldness of her actions (eloping when her ancestors had childbride arranged marriages), but she isn't the boldest of the family. All three sisters are responsible for Mah's shame. Her sister Ona committed suicide (shame) and her sister, Nina, had an abortion (shame). Even Mah carries shame (an affair while her second husband was away at sea as a merchant marine). Told from the perspective of Lei, she has to make a decision between dating and duty; between marriage with Mason and Mah. Having both seems impossible.… (mehr)
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SeriousGrace | 18 weitere Rezensionen | Sep 23, 2022 |
A searing novel about grief, family, and the profound effect our choices make on those who love us told through an odd, though effective, backward spiral in time.

The backward storyline impressed me the most, as I had not read a book told from the end to the beginning. At first, I was startled, but as I continued to read, the more profound and deeply moving the narrative became. Imagine starting out cynical and world-weary and going backward to a time of unconditional love and innocence.

A must-read for anyone coping with loss, family-dynamics... A bonus is the Chinese immigrant and first generation Chinese-American cultural insights.
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AngelaLam | 18 weitere Rezensionen | Feb 8, 2022 |
A lukewarm novel about Chinese immigrants and the Confession Program. Primarily told from one point of view until the end, the story didn't grab me and pull me in the same way Ng's debut novel, BONE, did.
 
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