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Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann

Kepler's Bookstore

October 10, 2006

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Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann FEATHER IN THE STORM: A Childhood Lost in Chaos Feather in the Storm is the powerful story of a child (Emily Wu) caught up in an historical upheaval whose forces are beyond her control. The book has a universal appeal as it sweeps the reader into its profound and passionate emotions. Emily Wu is the daughter of Ningkun Wu, a respected writer and translator who’s own memoir, A Single Tear, was a New York Times Notable Book of 1993. Emily has published many short stories in both Chinese and American newspapers and magazines, and she is the featured subject of a documentary film, Up to the Mountain, Down to the Village. She lives in northern California. Larry Engelmann is the author of five previous books, including The Goddess and the American Girl (NYT Notable Book of 1998), Tears Before the Rain, and Daughter of China. He writes for many national publications and is a history professor at San Jose State.

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  October 10, 2006

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  7:30pm

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  Kepler's Books

  1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA 94025

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  • Event Name: Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann
    "Very powerful"
    Review posted by: Joe Holt from San Jose, CA, Oct 03, 2006
    

    Rarely do I read a book that makes me sooo happy to be an American. Not proud, but happy. Emily Wu’s narrative of her childhood memories in China initially made me wince, yet at the same time grateful... Expand

    Rarely do I read a book that makes me sooo happy to be an American. Not proud, but happy. Emily Wu’s narrative of her childhood memories in China initially made me wince, yet at the same time grateful such experiences were inconceivable here. The injustices, the brutalities, the fear of Mao’s doctrines upon the people of China have never been displayed with such force as with Larry Engelmann’s fidelity to Emily’s spoken words. Without embellishment Engelmann trusted her words to prove emotions fiction can only pretend to create. Though this is not an “easy” book to read, I recommend it highly to anyone who thinks they understand the trials the Chinese had to endure through the seventies, much less a little girl. Collapse

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