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Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale

Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale

â€œA healing portrait drawn in epic ink strokes.â€â€•Elle
When Belle Yang was forced to take refuge in her parentsâ€™ home after an abusive boyfriend began stalking her, her father entertained her with stories of old China. The history sheâ€™d ignored while growing up became a source of comfort and inspiration, and narrowed the gap separating herâ€•an independent, Chinese-American womanâ€•from her Old World Chinese parents.

In Forget Sorrow, Yang makes her debut into the graphic form with the story of her fatherâ€™s family, reunited under the House of Yang in Manchuria during the Second World War and strugglingâ€•both together and individuallyâ€•to weather poverty, famine, and, later, Communist oppression. The parallels between Belle Yangâ€™s journey of self-discovery and the lives and choices of her grandfather, his brothers, and their father (the Patriarch) speak powerfully of the conflicts between generationsâ€•and of possibilities for reconciliation.

Forget Sorrow demonstrates the power of storytelling and remembrance, as Belleâ€•in telling this storyâ€•finds the strength to honor both her father and herself.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrations
ReleaseDate 2011-06-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393339963

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