Category Archives: heritage

Anchee Min’s “The Cooked Seed” immigrant memoir

Posted on May 27, 2013 by moonbridgebooks

Anchee Min came to St. Louis last week to talk about The Cooked Seed, a memoir of her immigration and life in the United States. It is a follow-up story to The Red Azalea, about her life during the Chinese … Continue reading →

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That’s The Way It Was black history stories of segregation in St. Louis

Posted on February 10, 2013 by moonbridgebooks

February is Black History Month, so seeing Vida Goldman Prince the other night was especially fitting. She introduced her brand new book, That’s The Way It Was: Stories of Struggles, Survival and Self-Respect in Twentieth-Century Black St. Louis. She was proud of … Continue reading →

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When legends die – false family history

Posted on October 21, 2012 by moonbridgebooks

Judy Bolton-Fasman wrote an intriguing op-ed for the New York Times relating her family history stories to Massachusetts Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren’s claims of American Indian heritage. (Thanks to online memoir-writer friend Gene Bodzin for this.) Bolton-Fasman, in All My … Continue reading →

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