In a logical, clear-thinking, pre-911 world Boy Hernandez would be madly filling orders with his newly established women’s fashion line, (B)oy for Bergdorf-Goodman, Bloomingdale’s and other trend setting hotspots. But in this post-911 world of fast and at times, sloppy security work, Boy’s been thrown into Gitmo for allegedly assisting terrorists by funneling money through his clothing design studio. HA!
Yang chronicles tales of her Chinese heritage woven with her own life story. The beauty of her language and her illustrations are breathtaking: weeping willows, cypresses, and ancestral burial ground as elegant as calligraphy.
Belle studied art in Beijing at the Academy of Traditional Painting where she moved to hide from her California boyfriend, a stalker, nicknamed "Rotten Egg." After Tiananmen, she moved back to her parents' home in Carmel, CA and began listening to her father's family stories. She retells them with beautiful brushstrokes of her pen and brush: the life and death of her Manchurian great grandfather, the wealthy family patriarch, Famine, Wars, family feuds, Misery, Anger and, finally, the Solace of mediation through Buddhism and Taoism. Her poetic storytelling made me yearn for my childhood home, friends and family. This poetic eulogy memoir will make your heart sing and forget its sorrows. --Aggie Zivaljevic
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