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When I Was Your Age

When I Was Your Age, Volume One: Original Stories About Growing Up In what can only be considered a stroke of brilliance, 10 authors were sent a letter asking for a story about their childhood.  This compilation is the result. … Continue reading

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The Lost Garden

The Lost Garden by Laurence Yep (1991) Yep is a serious and driven narrator.  The story of his life is relentless in the details.  Just as you are absorbing one story or part of his life he is moving on … Continue reading

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The Dragon’s Child – A Story of Angel Island

Laurence Yep, who has written many children’s books about China and Chinese-Americans has carefully crafted a fictional account of his own father’s immigration to the US from China. Gim Lew Yep’s situation is an interesting one. His father was born … Continue reading

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