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03548aam a2200469 i 4500 001 F65A42AC01D311EEACDD33752EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230603010031 008 221212t20232023nyua 000 0aeng 010 $a 2022058847 020 $a 0802162215 020 $a 9780802162212 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1354548972 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d WIM $d OCO $d GZM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ca $a n-us-ca 050 00 $a PS3564.G25 $b Z46 2023 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20221212 100 1 $a Ng, Fae Myenne, $d 1956- $e author. 245 10 $a Orphan bachelors : $b a memoir: on being a confession baby, Chinatown daughter, baa-bai sister, caretaker of exotics, literary balloon peddler, and grand historian of a doomed American family / $c Fae Myenne Ng. 250 $a First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. 260 $a New York : $b Grove Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 244 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "From the bestselling, award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng's Orphan Bachelors is a singular memoir of her beloved San Francisco's Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. Beloved by readers for her "incantatory" (New York Times) novels and their luminous depictions of Chinatown, Fae Myenne Ng's new memoir is a personal, timely portrait of the same storied place. In pre-Communist China, Ng's father memorized a book of lies and gained entry to the United States as a stranger's 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 only to have his citizenship revoked. Ng was her parents' precocious firstborn. A child raised by a seafaring father and a seamstress mother, by Chinatown and its legendary Orphan Bachelors-men without wives or children, Exclusion's living legacy. Exclusion's shadow followed Ng from the back alleys of Chinatown in the sixties, to Manhattan in the eighties, to the high desert of California in the nineties, until her return home in the 2000s when the deaths of her youngest brother and her father devastated the family. As a child, Ng believed her father's lies; as an adult, she returned to her childhood home to write his truth. Orphan Bachelors weaves together the history of one doomed family; an elegy for brothers estranged and for elders lost; and insights into writing between languages and teaching between generations. In this powerful remembrance, Ng gives voice to her ancestors, her Orphan Bachelors, and her own inner self, howling in Cantonese, impossible to translate but determined to be heard" -- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Ng, Fae Myenne, $d 1956- 650 0 $a Chinese American authors $v Biography. 650 0 $a Chinese American families $v Biography. 651 0 $a Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 11 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240517010402.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20240405024606.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240127011907.0 952 $l RUPC135 $d 20231121012019.0 952 $l UJPE911 $d 20230915010952.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20230816010103.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20230802012732.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230713113938.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20230706012811.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20230607010048.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230603010532.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F65A42AC01D311EEACDD33752EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search