Fae Myenne Ng
Fae Myenne Ng (author of Bone) will read and discuss her second novel
Steer Toward Rock
March 29, 2011 Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. at Eastwind Books of Berkeley
2066 University Ave. Berkeley, CA 94704
For more information (510)548-2350
email: eastwindbooks@gmail.com
“The woman I loved wasn’t in love with me; the woman I married wasn’t a wife to me. Ilin Cheung was my wife on paper. In deed, she belonged to Yi-Tung Szeto. In debt, I also belonged to him. He was my father, paper too.”
Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng’s heartbreaking novel of unrequited love, tells the story of JMS, the only bachelor butcher at the Universal Market in San Francisco. He is a man forced to choose between love and the law.
Not since Bone, Fae Myenne Ng’s highly praised debut novel, has a work so eloquently revealed the complex loyalties of Chinese America. Inspired by the Old Bachelors community in San Francisco Chinatown and the effects of the Chinese Exclusionary Act of 1882, Steer Toward Rock explores how the Chinese Confession Program targeted the community for racial persecution, interrogation, and deportation.
With the insight of a writer who knows the streets and alleys of Chinatown, Ng brings her readers into the lives of this community.
“This is an always gorgeous and often terrifying love story. It’s a poetic study of loyalty, love, loneliness, hard work, identity, immigration and political paranoia. I sing an honor song for Fae Myenne Ng’s return with her new novel.”
—Sherman Alexie, author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“Fae Myenne Ng writes like a bebop jazzer, a Miles Davis trumpet solo, tough and trenchant, moody and poetic, erratic and explosive, with surprising lines leading to beauty and truth. “ —Ben Fong-Torres, author of Rice Room, former editor of Rolling Stone.
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