EATING BITTER

About the Book

Eating Bitter, a Chinese American Saga is a richly textured biography charting the long lives of Paul and Sonia Ho. It is about survival of the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, the Communist Revolution and the prejudices the family encountered as immigrants to the United States. It is about memory - and conflicting memories. Eating Bitter is, above all, an American success story. It was Paul and Sonia’s eldest son, David, whose groundbreaking work on AIDS made him Time Magazine’s Person of the Year in 1996 and, a few years later, won him the Presidential Citizens Medal.

About the Author

Maria Tippett is one of Canada's leading cultural historians and author of many books including two award-winning biographies. She had lectured extensively in North and South America, Japan and in Europe. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she is a former Senior Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge University.