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St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN) -- January 16, 2005 --
HOUSEWARMING -- "Yeh Yeh's House" by Evelina Chao, Publisher St.
Martin's Press - Cost: $23.95 -- Mary Ann Grossmann, Book Critic --
Journeying to her parents' native country and the home of the
grandfather she never met, a Chinese-American woman from St. Paul
crosses the threshold to her own being.
When I interviewed Evelina Chao in 1983, Warner had just bought her
novel "Gates of Grace" for $247,500, one of the highest sums ever
paid by a publisher for a first novel at that time...
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Star Tribune -- December 5, 2004 -- An Occidental
tourist's journey home -- Mark Athitakis, Special To The Star
Tribune -- In 1987 Evelina Chao, a violist for the St. Paul Chamber
Orchestra, headed for China with her mother on a long-delayed visit
to her family. There had always been an excuse not to go -- concert
tours, orchestra gigs -- and, as a result, she never had a chance to
see her paternal grandfather, Yeh Yeh, before he died. "Yeh Yeh's
House" chronicles her five-week trek through the country, where she
filled out her family's story...
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BookList – November 1, 2004 -- Yeh Yeh’s House by
Evelina Chao, St. Martin Press -- Reviewed by Donna Seaman -- As
a girl in Virginia in the 1950s, Chao corresponded with her
grandfather, Yeh Yeh, a renowned poet and professor of English
living in Beijing. He wrote, "You must always be yourself." But who
was she? An American or the descendent of the distinguished Chinese
family from which she inherited her artistic gifts? A viola player
in the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Chao didn't visit her relatives
in China until 1987, making the pilgrimage with her often
uncommunicative mother. Writing with striking directness and
lucidity, Chao chronicles both...
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