Aimee Liu on Race, Family, Relationships, & Loss

Indexed stories

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About family & race

NOT YOUR CHINA DOLL

Snapshots of the Migration Estrangement That Tore My Asian-American Family Apart

The Last Days of Sun Yat-sen

A Hollywood Romance Made in China

When Worlds Collide

My Biracial Father’s Family Secrets, Decoded at Last

Family Photos Can Change You

Perspective from China’s First Pro-Democracy Activists

Genealogical Research Reveals More Than Ancestry

When Family Myths and Research Collide

How My Chinese Uncle Became an All-American Hero

When Anti-Miscegenation Laws Reflected the Worst Kind of Bigotry

Yellowface in the Family

The Foster Sister I Never Knew

When Memoir is Bedeviled by the Begats

About Me — Aimee Liu

About relationships & love

You Want Thin? I’ll Give You Thin!

The Magic of Parent-Child Attunement

Unforgettable Unforgivable Boyfriend Errors

Carolyn Hall Young’s Innovation Spanned Tech, Medicine, and Art, Around the Globe

About grief & loss

Dreams After Death

My Mother Wants a Pill

Must Obituaries Sugarcoat the Dead?

I Thought We Would Have More Time

How Death Can Teach Us to Make Meaning From the Inexplicable

Nostalgia for the East Coast Bonded Us in a West Coast ER

A Funeral on Pandemic Eve

Aimee Liu is the author of four novels, six nonfiction titles, and too many ghostwritten bestsellers to reveal. Her latest novel is Glorious Boy.

Visit her website at aimeeliu.net. And if you’re interested in family history and memoir writing, check out her Substack newsletter, Legacy & Lore.

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