Today in class, we studied a new novel "Crossings" by Chuang Hua. This book is a semi-autobiograophical novel of Chuang Hua herself; what I thought interesting is that the author even use her name to name the heroine. Does this suggest that the story is a journal of Chaung Hua herself? , For me, the author herself was kind mystery, she was the first modernist to address the Asia American experience; she was a great writer.However, Chaung Hua lived a very private and reclusive life, she never went on a interview or public recognition. she died about ten years ago, leaving her life a secret for the readers.
I found myself intrugued in the story because I have never read a novel full of so much contradiction. The heroine's life was pretty much a huge dliemma; her love to her dyaday and the only man in her life- the french journalist, her different values toward her brother, James, and her love affair.
She was against her brother's marriage to a caucasian with her parents, however, she fell in love with a caucasian, and he was the only man she had ever loved. Isn't that strange? how can she still disapprove of her brother's love to his bride when she was attracted to her Parisian lover? Unfortunately, my question might not be answered since our great writer has already pass away.
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