A Single-winged Bird

About the Book

General Description: A Single–winged Bird is an experimenting genre of personal book. It contains 42 poems, one riddle-cracking love story, and about 60 one-way emails. The poems and the short novel are bilingual in Chinese and English, and the one-way emails are largely in English with occasional texts in Chinese. Poems, novel, and email letters are magically woven into one tapestry of rare self-expression, reflecting a Chinese American’s pursuit in love, intellectual freedom, and spiritual liberation. In her novel, Edna meets DC on the sixth day of every month for ten years since 2001. Then they cohabit for 26 years, and move to live at Walden Pond until DC runs away from home at the age of 108. Does he dash onto a Metro train and die a suicidal motor rider? ...

About the Author

Edna Wu is the acclaimed author of Clouds & Rain: a China-to-America Memoir and Two Eves in the Garden of Eden & A Male Mother. The book, A Single-Winged Bird, is her most innovative writing, which experiments with the genre of a fictional personal book that collages poetry, fiction, and emails into rare self-expression, reflecting a Chinese American’s pursuit in love, intellectual freedom, and spiritual liberation.