Allison Hong Merrill (Author of The Paper Daughters of Chinatown)

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Allison Hong Merrill

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Allison was born and raised in Taiwan and arrived in the U.S. at age twenty-two as a university student. That's when she realized her school English wasn't much help when asking for directions on the street or opening a bank account. By recording each of the classes she took––including physical education––and reviewing the tape every night for a year, she eventually learned English well enough to earn an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. But please excuse her if she misuses the verb tenses or mixes up the genders in third-person pronouns when she speaks. It's no secret; English is a hard language to learn.

Allison writes in both Chinese and English, both fiction and creative nonfiction, which means she spends a lot of time lo ...more

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	The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B. Moore (老虎机稳赢方法 Author), Allison Hong Merrill (老虎机稳赢方法 Author), Nancy Wu (Reading) 4.15 avg rating — 8,569 ratings — published 2020 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Paper Daughters of Chinatown: Adapted for Young Readers by Heather B. Moore (老虎机稳赢方法 Author), Allison Hong Merrill (老虎机稳赢方法 Author) 4.26 avg rating — 361 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops: A Memoir 4.36 avg rating — 301 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Not-So-Secret Lives of Real "Mormon" Wives by Fernanda Bohme, Ganel-Lyn Condie, Kimberly Dowdell 4.70 avg rating — 66 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mindgames: LDS Beta Readers 2017 Anthology by LDS Beta Readers, Allison Hong Merrill (老虎机稳赢方法 Author) (Contributor), Amy Linnabary (老虎机稳赢方法 Author) (Contributor) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Opossum, Fall 2020 by Rima Ruhman (editor), Richard Bausch (老虎机稳赢方法 Author), Melanie Malinowski 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writer's Success Secrets: Successful Authors spill their secrets to getting a book written, published, and having incredible book sales! by Adam Houge (老虎机稳赢方法 Author), Allison Hong Merrill (老虎机稳赢方法 Author), Brent Maguire Phd 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life

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Jennifer offers the reader a gift of an incredible story, a fascinating journey, written in a beautiful voice. I don't simply read this book; I absorb it. ...more
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“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

tags: confusion, life, open, possibilities

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“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.”
― Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

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“We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

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“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

tags: flood, river, time, water, words

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“Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

tags: life, love

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