“Cono felt embarrassed by the thought that he might have been just another pitiful orphan trying to turn his friends into family, and that he might be blinded by this need, a need that colored his whole life, that ache to offer worth to someone.” ChinaGeneticsEspionageSpy ThrillerKazakhstan Book:Performance Anomalies Source: Performance Anomalies
“She was like him, trying to embrace the moon while making her way in the world through instinct and drive that came only from within, because she had only herself.” ChinaKazakhstanConoPerformance AnomaliesXiao Li Book:Performance Anomalies Source: Performance Anomalies
“And yet Xiao Li always spoke of her mother as if her image were mounted in a red-and-gold picture frame resting on a shrine in the corner of a tidy house, to be venerated and pleased at all times, like a deceased ancestor ever-present and scrutinizing her progeny.” ChinaProgenyXiao LiChinese Ancestry Author:Victor Robert Lee
“Beijing? Freedom? Oil and water.” FreedomChinaBeijingBulat Book:Performance Anomalies Source: Performance Anomalies