An Escape
Fae Myenne Ng is the first-generation Chinese-American author, her first book was Bone. The book Bone is somewhat related to the author herself. It took her over ten years to write this book. During this time, she was working as a waitress to support herself while attending college. She got married to Mark Coovelis who is also a writer but, they divorced later on. She connected many of her own stories in the book. Just like in the book, her mother was a seamstress and her father was a merchant seaman. She also grew up in San Francisco Chinatown, Fae and the main character Leila shares a lot of similarity, they both are seeking for their own happiness. In the novel Bone, she talks about the problems that Chinese family faced when they moved to San …show more content…
Fae received many criticisms about the title of the book, people asked her to change the title because it was not “warm and fuzzy” but, she titled the book Bone to honor the tradition of Chinese-American sending their bones home to China because to them the United States is only a place to work. One of the main themes of Bone is immigration, but not just the immigration from one country to another, it was more of an escape to life, a departure. Her …show more content…
Nina ran away from home, Leila got married in secret, Mah affair with Tommie Hom, Leon forgotten bones and Ona's death. They were afraid of the future so they keep living in the past. Without knowing, they are missing out on the present like Mah forgetting that Leila is always by her side, that Leon feeling for Mah was never changed and so does Mah's. They all held in their feeling because of what happened in the past. Leila believes that, “The heart never travels. I believe in holding still. I believe that the secrets we hold in our hearts are out anchors, that even the unspoken between us is a measure of our every promise to the living and to the dead.” (Ng
Fae Myenne Ng is the first-generation Chinese-American author, her first book was Bone. The book Bone is somewhat related to the author herself. It took her over ten years to write this book. During this time, she was working as a waitress to support herself while attending college. She got married to Mark Coovelis who is also a writer but, they divorced later on. She connected many of her own stories in the book. Just like in the book, her mother was a seamstress and her father was a merchant seaman. She also grew up in San Francisco Chinatown, Fae and the main character Leila shares a lot of similarity, they both are seeking for their own happiness. In the novel Bone, she talks about the problems that Chinese family faced when they moved to San …show more content…
Fae received many criticisms about the title of the book, people asked her to change the title because it was not “warm and fuzzy” but, she titled the book Bone to honor the tradition of Chinese-American sending their bones home to China because to them the United States is only a place to work. One of the main themes of Bone is immigration, but not just the immigration from one country to another, it was more of an escape to life, a departure. Her …show more content…
Nina ran away from home, Leila got married in secret, Mah affair with Tommie Hom, Leon forgotten bones and Ona's death. They were afraid of the future so they keep living in the past. Without knowing, they are missing out on the present like Mah forgetting that Leila is always by her side, that Leon feeling for Mah was never changed and so does Mah's. They all held in their feeling because of what happened in the past. Leila believes that, “The heart never travels. I believe in holding still. I believe that the secrets we hold in our hearts are out anchors, that even the unspoken between us is a measure of our every promise to the living and to the dead.” (Ng