The Pig Festival

An excerpt from Grace Loh Prasad's beautiful forthcoming book; and some links!

Hello dear readers,

We’re so happy to share with you an excerpt from Grace Loh Prasad’s book, The Translator’s Daughter, forthcoming in March with Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press.

But first, a few links. Michelle spent a lovely afternoon with NPR’s All Things Considered team, speaking with Ailsa Chang (!), Jonaki Mehta, Mallory Yu, Patrick Jarenwattananon, and Hugo Peng. They talked about the recent wave of Taiwanese Americans who are moving to Taiwan.

Meanwhile, the effervescent Yascha Mounk spent time in Taiwan last year. Yascha graciously invited Albert on his podcast at Persuasion to talk about the elections in Taiwan. Besides analyzing the election results, they talked quite a bit about Taiwanese history.

Back to our excerpt today. Born in Taiwan, Grace moved to the United States when she was two years old because her family feared persecution under Chiang Kai-shek’s dictatorship. This beautiful memoir contains meditations on a wide range of issues—i…