![]() The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir, Karen Cheung (Random House, February 2021)Ĭheung covers the next twenty years or so as “that space when so much felt possible” and when, at least as she portrays it, young people were forging a new (post-colonial) identity. It is too neat a metaphor, but still we’re pointing to the sky, mumbling to ourselves: It’s crying. ![]() The observatory hoists the black rainstorm signal, to warn us of tumbling landslides. The water is charging down the steps, drenching our concrete pavements, dripping from the banyan trees. Summers in Hong Kong always heave with rain, but on this first of July, the downpour feels deliberate, overdone. It’s hard to avoid being swept up by her story from the beginning as she describes the day of the Handover in 1997 when she was four years old. ![]() Karen Cheung’s new book, The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir, about growing up and coming of age in a city she feels is like no other, is characterized by a narrative style both intimate and candid. ![]()
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Having grown up reading Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl, I can safely say that even now I was looking forward to reading the last instalment of the series. ![]() ![]() He knew the poisonous ones never grew on trees. Excerptīarclay Thorne knew almost all there was to know about mushrooms, and there was a lot to know. Determined to break this bond and return home, Barclay journeys to find the mysterious town of Lore Keepers, people who have also bonded with Beasts and share their powers.īut after making new friends, entering a dangerous apprenticeship exam, and even facing the legendary Beast of the Woods, Barclay must make a difficult choice: return to the home and rules he’s always known, or embrace the adventure awaiting him. To Barclay’s horror, he faces a fate far worse than being eaten: he unwittingly bonds with a Beast and is run out of town by an angry mob. 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