Her entry begins:
I was walking through the neighborhood of Silver Lake in Los Angeles recently when I came across a Little Free Library and a book I’ve been meaning to read for a long time: A Friend of the Family by Lauren Grodstein. This novel is exquisitely plotted and reads like a psychological thriller. You just know that something monumental has happened to tear apart the protagonist’s seemingly well-ordered life, and Grodstein carefully sows the seeds until the very last page. I tried to pace myself but...[read on]About Across a Green Ocean, from the publisher:
Michael Tang and his sister, Emily, have both struggled to forge a sense of identity in their parents’ adopted homeland. Emily, anVisit Wendy Lee's website, Facebook page, and Twitter perch.immigration lawyer in New York City, baffles their mother, Ling, by refusing to have children. At twenty-six, Michael is unable to commit to a relationship or a career, or to come out to his family. And now their father, after a lifetime of sacrifice, has passed away.
When Michael finds a letter to his father from a long-ago friend, he impulsively travels to China in the hopes of learning more about a man he never really knew. In this rapidly modernizing country he begins to understand his father’s decisions, including one whose repercussions can be felt into the present day. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Ling and Emily question their own choices, trying to forge a path that bends toward new loves and fresh beginnings.
My Book, The Movie: Across a Green Ocean.
Writers Read: Wendy Lee.
--Marshal Zeringue
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