Jennie Liu is the daughter of Chinese immigrants. Having been brought up with an ear to two cultures, she’s fascinated by attitudes, social policies, and changes in China. She’s the author of the young adult novels Girls on the Line and Like Spilled Water, both recognized by the Freeman Book Awards of The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. Her novel The Red Car to Hollywood was an Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association’s YA Literature Award Winner and a New York Public Library Best Book for Teens. Enly and the Buskin’ Blues is her middle grade novel inspired by her sons and her town in Western North Caroline. School Library Journal called it “a recommended fiction title with humor and depth.”
Declaring one's FAVORITE BOOKS is like declaring a favorite child or food, but here's what comes to mind today--Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier; Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos; Brooklyn by Colm Toibin; Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan; Family Life by Akhil Sharma; The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.
When I'm not reading and writing, the other half of my time is spent working as an Occupational Therapist, which is fascinating and immersive on so many levels.