Every family has its share of stories, and for children, these stories shape their family's identity and thus their own. My own family stories were about life in China as expatriates, mainly during the Japanese occupation. After the second World War, conflict continued between the Nationalists and Communists causing expatriate families like mine to flee, many to the US and Australia.
As an adult, I began to write down these stories from long ago and in time, they became the impetus and background to the story of th more...