Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir by Fae Myenne Ng Paperback Book

Description: Orphan Bachelors by Fae Myenne Ng Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR NONFICTIONFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ngs Orphan Bachelors is an extraordinary memoir of her beloved San Franciscos Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusionIn pre-Communist China, Fae Myenne Ngs father memorized a book of lies and gained entry to the United States as a strangers 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 in a failed attempt to salvage his marriage only to have his citizenship revoked to resident alien. Exclusion and Confession, Americas two slamming doors. As Ngs father said, "America didnt have to kill any Chinese, the Exclusion Act ensured none would be born."Ng was her parents precocious first born, the translator, the bossy eldest sister. A child raised by a seafaring father and a seamstress mother, by San Franciscos Chinatown and its legendary Orphan Bachelors -- men without wives or children, Exclusions living legacy. She and her siblings were their stand-in descendants, Ngs family grocery store their haven.Each Orphan Bachelor bequeathed the children their true American inheritance. Ng absorbed their suspicious, lonely, barren nature; she found storytelling and chosen children in the form of her students. Exclusions legacy followed her from the back alleys of Chinatown in the 60s, to Manhattan in the 80s, to the high desert of California in the 90s, until her return home in the 2000s when the untimely deaths of her youngest brother and her father devastated the family. A a child, Ng believed her fathers lies; as an adult, she returned to her childhood home to write his truth. Orphan Bachelors weaves together the history of one family, lucky to exist and nevertheless doomed; an elegy for brothers estranged and for elders lost; and insights into writing between languages and teaching between generations. It also features Cantonese profanity, snakes that cure fear and opium that conquers sorrow, and a seemingly immortal creep of tortoises. In this powerful remembrance, Fae Myenne Ng gives voice to her valiant ancestors, her bold and ruthless Orphan Bachelors, and her own inner self, howling in Cantonese, impossible to translate but determined to be heard. Author Biography FAE MYENNE NG is the author of bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone and American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. Her work has been published in Harpers Magazine, The New Republic, Ploughshares, and anthologized in Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction, Literature Across Cultures, The PEN Short Fiction Project, and The Pushcart Prize. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Guggenheim, the Lannan Foundation, the NEA, the Radcliffe Institute, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeleys Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies. Details ISBN 0802163351 ISBN-13 9780802163356 Title Orphan Bachelors Author Fae Myenne Ng Format Paperback Year 2024 Pages 256 Publisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press GE_Item_ID:160144519; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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