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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Ng, Fae Myenne, 1956- author.     Subjects     Ng, Fae Myenne, 1956-     Chinese American authors -- Biography.     Chinese American families -- Biography.     Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ng, Fae Myenne, 1956- author.       by title:      Orphan bachelors : a...         MARC Display

Orphan bachelors : a memoir on being a confession baby, Chinatown daughter, baa-bai sister, caretaker of exotics, literary balloon peddler, and grand historian of a doomed American family / Fae Myenne Ng. by Ng, Fae Myenne, 1956- author. New York : Grove Press, 2023. Subjects Ng, Fae Myenne, 1956-   Chinese American authors -- Biography.   Chinese American families -- Biography.   Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Biography. ISBN:  9780802162212 (hardcover) : 0802162215 (hardcover) Description:  244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Edition:  First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 813.54 Ng Ng Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 813.54 Ng Ng Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 813.54 Ng Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 813.54 Ng Checked In Add Copy to MyList Keaau P/S Library Adult Biography 813.54 Ng Ng Checked In Add Copy to MyList Liliha Public Library Adult Nonfiction 813.54 Ng Ng Checked In Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Nonfiction 813.54 Ng Checked In Add Copy to MyList Manoa Public Library Adult Biography B Ng Ng Checked In Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Adult Biography B Ng Ng Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 813.54 Ng Ng Checked In Add Copy to MyList More Results: 1 2 Next

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