Reading the opening pages of Fae Myenne Ng's memoir, Orphan Bachelors, feels like coming home. I know these San Francisco streets, I know these voices, I know this Chinatown. #booksky #amreadingmemoir #sanfranciscochinatown #faemyenneng #booklover #orphanbachelors

#sentenceoftheday #faemyenneng #orphanbachelors #amreadingmemoir #booksky "At sea, his steady companion was silence; on land, his talk swelled like a storm."

#sentenceoftheday #booksky #amreadingmemoir #faemyenneng #orphanbachelors #chineseexclusionact #immigrationpolicy "The laws have dizzying forms -- I-129, I-130, I-551, G-325A -- forms that change names, change terms, become obsolete, create themselves anew, even as this is being written."

#sentenceoftheday #amreadingmemoir #faemyenneng #orphanbachelors #chinesemothers #booksky "Though my mother died in 2003, I still hear her at every meal, admonishing me for eating avocadoes, grapefruit, watermelons, any salad or raw food, all too cooling."

On the enduring gifts of the first writer I ever met, #FaeMyenneNg #Bone #OrphanBachelors #SteerTowardRock #WriterlyGenerosity thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/sentences-...

#sentenceoftheday #faemyenneng #orphanbachelors #amreadingmemoir #booksky #readmorewomen #womenwriters "Why waste time telling a story that didn't terrify and teach?"

#sentenceoftheday #faemyenneng #asianamericanwriters #amreadingmemoir #booksky #OrphanBachelors: "She had not known how to keep something for herself and would learn how sacrifice can sour."

#sentenceoftheday #booksky #stillreading #memoir #orphanbachelors #homeremedies #family #faemyenneng "When my father no longer had an appetite, I made him a bowl of winter: pine nuts boiled for hours with anise stars."