Katherine Liang Chew

A String of Beads Katherine Liang Chew

Katherine L. Chew has written a collection of hilarious, heartwarming, and poignant stories about her childhood in China in the years preceding and during WWII, her emigration to the United States as the bride of a Chinese-American Army officer, and her subsequent adventures trying to live life as an American while retaining her Chinese cultural identity and raising a family. Hers is an authentic voice of the Chinese-American experience. Also included are a number of her original and retold Chinese fables.