My friend, Leslie Li.
We met in the 1990's, probably because we both attended Hedgebrook (a women writers' colony) and as the literature curator at The Kitchen I wanted to do an evening of Hedgebrook writers. She had published her novel, Bittersweet which she read from that night.
Years later Leslie left NYC. For Vermont. During those years came Enter the Dragon, 3 adaptations for children of Chinese folk tales.
Leslie returned to NYC, her center of gravity, and published a memoir, Daughter of Heaven: A Memoir with Earthly Recipes.
And now she is a film-maker. Chronicling the life and career of her mother and her mother's sisters, Kim Loo Sisters: Portrait in Four-Part Harmony, which is Leslie's meditation on the nature of America, identity, race and gender. Her project's website: http://kimloosisters.com/
Leslie's latest interview, with Jolin Yang, http://www.jolinyang.com/
The Kim Loo Sisters:
We met in the 1990's, probably because we both attended Hedgebrook (a women writers' colony) and as the literature curator at The Kitchen I wanted to do an evening of Hedgebrook writers. She had published her novel, Bittersweet which she read from that night.
Years later Leslie left NYC. For Vermont. During those years came Enter the Dragon, 3 adaptations for children of Chinese folk tales.
Leslie returned to NYC, her center of gravity, and published a memoir, Daughter of Heaven: A Memoir with Earthly Recipes.
And now she is a film-maker. Chronicling the life and career of her mother and her mother's sisters, Kim Loo Sisters: Portrait in Four-Part Harmony, which is Leslie's meditation on the nature of America, identity, race and gender. Her project's website: http://kimloosisters.com/
Leslie's latest interview, with Jolin Yang, http://www.jolinyang.com/
The Kim Loo Sisters:
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