William Poy Lee's Reviews
Reviews by William
30.Apr.2008
William Poy Lee reviews
by william-poy-lee
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - earning a rare Red Star Review
“In this remarkable memoir, mother and son tell their story, in alternating...
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I’m hooked on it and keep saving your words for dessert. One of the few books that truly conveys a life as lived from the inside. It is a reader's joy, and a path to empathy and shared humanity.”
—Gloria Steinem
About William
Born 1951 in San Francisco and raised with one root in the traditional Toisanese speaking urban village of SF Chinatown and one root in the heady Bohemian North Beach culture of jazz, Beat poetry, Zen, the counter culture, hedonism, and good Italian food....
Causes William Lee Supports
Kim Baptiste's Culture Clash Hip-Hop Clubs for Youth, SF Bay Area East Bay Meditation Center, availing Buddhist wisdom to inner cities Belladonna Sanctuary...
William’s Favorite Books
Temple of My Familiar, Red Harvest, The Thin Man, The Long Goodbye, The Love Wife, Androgyny, East of Eden, Notes of a Native Son, Seeing Through Shuck: An...