Fae Myenne Ng, Bone 1993

Fae Myenne Ng was born and reared in San Francisco. Her stories have been published in Harper's, the American Voice, Bostonia, and other magazines; they have also appeared in such anthologies as the Pushcart Prize VII. Several of Ng's most prominent short stories were integrated into her first novel, Bone (1993), which, set in San Francisco's Chinatown, explores the sometimes grim lives of the Leong family as they grapple with the realities of Chinese-American culture. One such story, "The Red Sweater," features a young Chinese-American woman narrator trying to understand the way stories connect her to her ...