![]() ![]() Over there nobody will look down on her, because I will make her speak only perfect American English. But over there nobody will say her worth is measured by the loudness of her husband's belch. On her journey she cooed to the swan: "In America I will have a daughter just like me. Then the woman and the swan sailed across an ocean many thousands of li wide, stretching their necks toward America. ![]() This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!-it is too beautiful to eat. The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. And a thousand flowers each to three people whom I have had the joy and the luck to know: my editor, Faith Sale, for her belief in this book my agent, Sandra Dijkstra, for saving my life and my teacher, Molly Giles, who told me to start over again and then patiently guided me to the end. Special thanks also to Louis DeMattei, Robert Foothorap, Gretchen Schields, Amy Hempel, Jennifer Barth, and my family in China and America. ![]() The author is grateful to her weekly writers' group for kindness and criticism during the writing of this book. ![]()
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