“Dad, there are things about my childhood I’d like to know.” “I don’t want to talk about it. It would only hurt your mother.” “But Dad, you’re the only one who can tell me.” “I don’t want to talk about it. It would only hurt your mother.” Secrets. Lies. Silences. Stories told by parents and their families to protect themselves. A father who defends his wife despite her damage to their daughter’s health and welfare. A mother, shielded by her husband, who perpetuates murderous acts of violen...

This short story is about a third-grade student, Xiao Ming, in one of the Chinese DualLanguage Schools in the United States, Xiao Minghas set up her goal to learn both English and Chinesewell. She wants to be like her older brother,Da Wei,to earn the Seal of Biliteracy on her diploma when she graduatesfrom high school.故事简介这篇小故事是关于就读一所美国中英双文学校的一位三年级学生小明立志要学好英文和中文。她决心像她哥哥大卫一样在高中毕业证书上获得双语金印。

Summer, 1956. With her parents away and her boyfriend abroad, Rennie is on her own. To make money for college, she takes a job as a recreational therapist in a large mental hospital in New York City, despite her reluctance to sign a loyalty oath in the charged times of McCarthyism. She has no relevant experience, but she’s good at sports. How hard can it be? Very hard, she discovers.As Rennie struggles to relate to the confused, emotionally unpredictable women and challenging hospi...

What would you do if you woke up in your usual life,and by the end of the day, everything had changed?When her husband of forty years wants a divorce, shaken-to-her-core Laura Feldman embarks on a bumpy ride from her black & white Midwestern life to the bold colors of New Mexico. In this new landscape where anything might happen, Laura finds inspiration, strength, and transformation in the friendship of Santa Fe women who help her walk the winding road to self-disco...

Summer, 1956. With her parents away and her boyfriend abroad, Rennie is on her own. To make money for college, she takes a job as a recreational therapist in a large mental hospital in New York City, despite her reluctance to sign a loyalty oath in the charged times of McCarthyism. She has no relevant experience, but she’s good at sports. How hard can it be? Very hard, she discovers.As Rennie struggles to relate to the confused, emotionally unpredictable women and challenging hospi...

What would you do if you woke up in your usual life,and by the end of the day, everything had changed?When her husband of forty years wants a divorce, shaken-to-her-core Laura Feldman embarks on a bumpy ride from her black & white Midwestern life to the bold colors of New Mexico. In this new landscape where anything might happen, Laura finds inspiration, strength, and transformation in the friendship of Santa Fe women who help her walk the winding road to self-disco...