Meredith Maran on The Eighth Promise
February 8th, 2007 by Michelle
Meredith Maran writes eloquently about William Poy Lee’s memoir, The Eighth Promise, today in Salon.
The duet of voices, mother’s and son’s, sets the reader gently into the boat of one family’s history, then maneuvers it along a river wending between past and present, between an ancient, unchanged Toisan village and the cacophonous streets of contemporary Chinatown, USA.
