A Letter to Readers from Eve J. Chung, author of Daughters of Shandong

Dear Reader, When I was born, my parents could not afford childcare. So they could make ends meet, they sent me to Taiwan to live with my maternal grandmother, my Puo Puo, while they studied and worked in the United States. She and I developed a special relationship that continued even after I returned to

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Eve J. Chung’s Daughters of Shandong

Daughters of Shandong is a propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters’ harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story.   1 Heirless Nai Nai said whores weren’t allowed in the house, so she kicked Mom out, slamming the

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