Category Archives: multicultural

Life Writing as Fiction: Ramon Calhoun’s “Blackanese Boy”

Posted on April 13, 2014 by moonbridgebooks

I have mentioned before the value of writing about your life using fiction. Ramon Calhoun did this with Blackanese Boy, recently published. I met Ramon through a Facebook group for half-Japanese people. Most of us grew up during a time … Continue reading →

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Oral histories and interviews strike gold

Posted on March 3, 2014 by moonbridgebooks

While writing Cherry Blossoms in Twilight, my mother’s stories of everyday life around WWII in Japan, my eyes were opened to the gold of all personal stories, especially of culture and history. Sure, I had heard plenty of Mom’s childhood stories of … Continue reading →

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“The Boy at the Gate” memoir is a poignant song

Posted on October 13, 2013 by moonbridgebooks

At the age of eight, Danny Ellis was separated from his siblings and dropped off at the most notorious orphanage in Ireland. The Artane Industrial School housed 800 orphans and delinquents that nobody wanted—a noisy, ragtag bunch of “humanity’s lost … Continue reading →

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