Unraveling Threads: Essays on Inheritance
“Unraveling Threads examines the fertile intersection between metaphor and matter through the medium of weaving. Filled with observations about motherhood, language, inheritance, and home, these essays unspool the efforts we make to be legible—for mothers to be understood by their children; for women’s work to be considered worthy of study; for a colonized nation to speak with its own voice. Like the handmade clothing collected by the author’s mother, this collection is lovingly designed, beautifully constructed, and infused with meaning for those lucky enough to receive it.” —Grace Loh Prasad, author of The Translator’s Daughter
Wealth Ribbon: Taiwan Bound, America Bound
This book is a thematic narrative that intertwines the coming-of-age story of Taiwan with three generations of the author's family and their relationship with American culture. Together, these interconnected essays form a distinctive view of what it is like to have a transnational identity and show how the everyday politics of an international cultural identity are in fact universal.