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...Anna O. Chai...
...preface to The Last Time I Saw Mother, Arlene Chai writes, "Before I knew of the things I now record on these pages, I lived a life full of uncertainties. Perhaps you know of that feeling, when you are filled with little pinholes that show up in the light and you wait and wait for the answers that make you whole." According to the narrator, the answers are found within this story. However, there are too many pinholes in Chai's first novel, lending too much light and not enough structure...
Unfortunately for Caridad (and Chai), her own story is simply lost among the histories of her family. The novel is only 340 pages long, and the print is large--there isn't enough room to properly treat each woman's complete life story, or even to tell Caridad's correctly...
...CHAI LING, 30; BOSTON; Tiananmen student-protest leader...
...elected commander in chief of the students, and whose rallying cries rose above the protesters in 1989. This flesh-and-blood "Goddess of Democracy" escaped the square on June 4, just before the tanks rolled in. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed, and many wonder if the decision by Chai and other leaders not to retreat ultimately led to the bloodshed; she maintains its magnitude could never have been precicted. After hiding for 10 months, Chai eventually reached France (she's saving the details of her escape for a forthcoming autobiography), and was granted political asylum. She came...