Transparency Stories

With a deceptively simple yet graceful style, Frances Hwang captures the thousand minor battles waged in the homes of immigrants - struggles to preserve time-honoured traditions or break free of them, to maintain authority or challenge it and to take advantage of modern excesses without diluting oners"s ethnic identity.In 'Garden City', a weary Chinese couple struggling to evict their deadbeat tenant, is forced to face the aftermath of their teenaged sonrs"s death from cancer. In 'Transparency', Henry Liu - sure that he is dying - is given a second lease on life. And in 'The Old Gentleman', a daughter discovers a dark secret from her fatherrs"s past.

Frances Hwang has a B.A. from Brown, an M.A. from the University of Virginia, and an M.F.A. from the University of Montana. She has attended the MacDowell Colony and Provincetown creative writing workshops, and she was the Olive B. O'Connor Creative Writing Fellow at Colgate University. She lives in Berkeley, California.