"...honest and touching....”Yeh Yeh’s House is a
lovely and generous memoir..Chao’s beautiful writing will delight
you" -- St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN) -- 01/16/05
"Thoughtful and ambitious. It’s easy and often
compulsive reading. The flowing narrative is enlivened by good
dialogue in varied voices. It bursts with so much detail an index
would not be out of place." -- South China Morning Post --
01/05
"Chao is a splendidly direct and captivating
storyteller..." -- Speakeasy Magazine -- Winter 2004"
"'Yeh Yeh's House' is a pleasant surprise -- a
carefully crafted, tough-minded and well-observed memoir that has
little patience for the usual cliches." -- Star Tribune --
12/05/04
"Utterly unaffected and yet profoundly affecting,
Chao's resplendent tale of unbreakable family ties incisively
illuminates the deep meaning of inheritance." -- BookList --
11/01/04