by Dori Jones Yang | Apr 2, 2020 | Intrepid Women
A review of Saturday’s Child: A Daughter’s Memoir by Deborah Burns Although my mother was totally unlike this author’s, I found this memoir irresistible. Burns’s mother, Dotty, was a stunningly beautiful, buxom redhead who dressed to the nines with glittery baubles,...
by Dori Jones Yang | Mar 29, 2020 | Intrepid Women
As a diversion from the current ills of the world, I highly recommend reading Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels, by the mother-daughter combo of Isabel Sun Chao and Claire Chao, published in 2018. Reading this book during this time...
by Dori Jones Yang | Mar 10, 2020 | Intrepid Women
Tears of sadness and joy overflowed my eyes many times as I read Among the Maasai by Juliet Cutler. Her writing is so vivid and absorbing that, as a reader, I related to her every step of the way, as she told the story of her two years as a young teacher in Tanzania...
by Dori Jones Yang | Mar 5, 2020 | Intrepid Women
I’m fascinated with intrepid women—from history and from today—especially those who wrote about their lives. Why? Because I consider myself to be an intrepid woman—one who is/was fearless about traveling the world, willing to venture far outside my comfort zone, and...
