Lovely article. Thank you for sharing your story. I just started reading Stay True, and it's wonderful. "The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories." What I love about this book so far is how deftly he reflects, not only on growing up as a second-generation Taiwanese-American particularly, but also on the universality of how young people, with newly attained freedom from their parents, will pick and swap elements of their identities as they decide what kind of adults they hope to become.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Martin. Yes - I have that quote underlined in my copy. I love how your put that. “Pick and swap elements of their identities…” Absolutely.
Lovely article. Thank you for sharing your story. I just started reading Stay True, and it's wonderful. "The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories." What I love about this book so far is how deftly he reflects, not only on growing up as a second-generation Taiwanese-American particularly, but also on the universality of how young people, with newly attained freedom from their parents, will pick and swap elements of their identities as they decide what kind of adults they hope to become.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Martin. Yes - I have that quote underlined in my copy. I love how your put that. “Pick and swap elements of their identities…” Absolutely.
This is beautiful. ❤️