Dec 30, 2009

Bone | About the Author

Fae Myenne Ng was born in San Francisco, California, in 1957. She remembers associating with the elderly men who had come to America to earn money but who had expected to someday return home. Revolution in China and bizarre American laws regarding Chinese immigration had trapped many of them in California. Those men were remarkable to her: They had helped build California's agriculture, mines, and railroads. One such elderly man, then working as a night janitor at a hotel, provided her with patrons' leftover newspapers, helping her to become interested in current events and the world at...