Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Yang, Belle, PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton & Company, When Belle Yang was forced to take refuge in her parentsâ home after an abusive boyfriend began stalking her, her father entertained her with stories of old China. The history sheâd ignored while growing up became a source of comfort and inspiration, and narrowed the gap separating herâan independent, Chinese-American womanâfrom her Old World Chinese parents.In Forget Sorrow, Yang makes her debut into the graphic form with the story of her fatherâs family, reunited under the House of Yang in Manchuria during the Second World War and strugglingâboth together and individuallyâto weather poverty, famine, and, later, Communist oppression. The parallels between Belle Yangâs journey of self-discovery and the lives and choices of her grandfather, his brothers, and their father (the Patriarch) speak powerfully of the conflicts between generationsâand of possibilities for reconciliation.Forget Sorrow demonstrates the power of storytelling and remembrance, as Belleâin telling this storyâfinds the strength to honor both her father and herself.