False gold by fae myenne ng biography

          Fae Myenne Ng, born on December 2, , in San Francisco, is a Chinese American author, known for her highly acclaimed first novel Bone ()..

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          Interview

          A Conversation with Fae Myenne Ng, author of Orphan Bachelors

          What motivated you to write this memoir?

          This is the book I always hoped to write.

          This remarkable first novel chronicles a believable journey through pain to healing, exposing the emotional scars--the bleeding hearts and aching kinship bones.

        1. This remarkable first novel chronicles a believable journey through pain to healing, exposing the emotional scars--the bleeding hearts and aching kinship bones.
        2. He was a boy born into gilt and flaming gold.
        3. Fae Myenne Ng, born on December 2, , in San Francisco, is a Chinese American author, known for her highly acclaimed first novel Bone ().
        4. Ng was her parents' precocious first born, the translator, the bossy eldest sister.
        5. Across memoir and fiction, Fae Myenne Ng has explored the true cost of the Chinese Exclusion era.

          6. Orphan Bachelors is about the almost-vainglorious era in my San Francisco's Chinatown, a sliver of time when my parents and their community held on tenaciously to the pre-Mao culture they knew, much like how the Sicilians in Manhattan's Little Italy preserved the world of pre-Mussolini Italy.



          Tell us how the Chinese Exclusion Act and US immigration policies directly impacted your immediate family and your Chinatown community?

          Families were rare in the Chinatown of my youth, making it an intimate, insular village.

          Despite Exclusion being repealed in 1943, for over two decades, a quota limited the annual entry of Chinese to 105 persons. My father called it "the Little Exclusion".

          In 1940, my father's sister, the wife of a merchant, was already in America and pai