Image - Eternal River Volume 2 front cover - Glossy persimmon orange with a golden rectangle edged in black set in the middle. In the rectangle are the Chinese characters for “eternity” and “deep river” in black calligraphy.

Eternal River
Volume II - The Claremont Years

Carolyn Wing Greenlee

Things were vastly different in 1951 when Tom and Kay Wing moved their family to Claremont, California. At age 4, their daughter Carolyn was about to spend the next 13 years experiencing life from the inside of their custom house, being reared in the combination of old Chinese and new American ideas that her parents chose from navigating their own difficult pasts. With brilliant, dynamic, powerful parents, and an older sister who excelled at everything; through the rigors of childhood, the brutality of junior high and the awkwardness of high school, Carolyn must fight for a place of her own. With great insight and humor, Carolyn Wing Greenlee tells of these years in a way that is poignant, captivating and deeply touching.

- Review Quotes -

"Eternal River - Volume 2 - The Early Years" is part of a searing quintet of volumes which track two immigrant families as its members untie traditional Chinese constraints and seek their places in America’s maddening mix of exclusion and opportunity. Wing-Greenlee, a third-generation American Chinese, is an artist, oral historian, memoirist, and poet. Employing one skill, then another, she unsparingly details the distinctive character, obstacles, and achievements of each of her talented parents, and the families from which they sprang. With equal audacity, she bares the pleasures and pangs of growing up as a Chinese in a mostly white college town.

—Harriet Rochlin, Author
Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West

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• Price: $17.95

• Softcover
• 404 Pages
• 6"x 9"
• includes photos
• ISBN# 1-887400-39-7
• Item# EVB-1030

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