With Taipei Story, the bestselling author turns from empires and academia to the more intimate terrain of language, family and the diasporic fantasy of going home.
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“In reading ‘Hope House,’ I felt like these young people re-entered my classroom. Re-entered my cerebrum. That I was, once again, privileged to be reminded of our collective messiness, and our collective beauty.”
“Los Angeles was never the exception, not as location or as mirror. It was the early draft of America. It was the truth, told with a wink, before people perhaps wanted to see their reality more accurately reflected.”
“I asked Packer, no stranger to critique from both sides of the political aisle, about anticipating criticism for the novel’s suggestive polarities.”
