SEEING GHOSTS, out now via @grandcentralpub. ✨ hardly on here. repped by Jin Auh of The Wylie Agency.

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24 Aug 2021
“A certain kind of sorrow lingers because a part of us wants it and wills it to persist, and Chow artfully and intelligently maps which kind of grief this is.“ Beyond thrilled to wake up on pub day to this thoughtful review of SEEING GHOSTS, out now ✨ nytimes.com/2021/08/24/books…
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27 Mar 2024
I've been interested in how people are reversing language attrition — the forgetting of a language by a once-fluent speaker. It happens *fast* when a family moves to a new country, within three generations. I wrote a little about it in @TheAtlantic: theatlantic.com/family/archi…
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We're throwing a Lunar New Year celebration with @HachetteUS. Come along to this reading & party featuring @curtischin, @katchow, @ninejoseph, Subhashini Kaligotla, @SaharMuradi, & @salesses, & hosted by @ymmayer. 🧧 Thursday, February 15th, 6–9 PM ET. kundiman.org/calendar-1/luna…
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29 Sep 2023
lots to unpack about this woman who's dedicated all this time to getting books banned, but where to even begin— washingtonpost.com/education…
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28 Sep 2023
this was an excellent convo HIGHLY recommend a listen to the @slate plus segment where @Tanvim and I talk about the show MADE IN HEAVEN.
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This @katchow piece stabbed me in the heart. As a fading Cantonese speaker, I'm planning for my cousins in Hong Kong (or my husband's in Japan) to take my son for summers when he's older. I just don't know any other way to do this than how we did it. theatlantic.com/family/archi…
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25 Sep 2023
for @TheAtlantic, I got bullied by my toddler niece and explored what it means to teach your kids a language you've lost.
The key to teaching kids their heritage language is simple: Expose them to it often. The challenge is how to do that when the parents themselves don’t speak it well, @katchow writes: theatlantic.com/family/archi…
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25 Sep 2023
so fascinating to talk with parents and linguists to try to understand if it's possible to reverse language attrition — which happens fast: in many cases, a heritage language becomes all but extinct by the time a family’s third generation is living in a new country.
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25 Sep 2023
I realized while reporting this story, that really my questions weren't just about language acquisition — but the *labor* required to teach a culture and heritage.
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"Efforts to suppress languages other than English were present even in the country’s earliest days....In the U.S., bringing a heritage language back into a family usually comes down to the efforts of individuals." Thank you for sharing our story @TheAtlantic @katchow.
The key to teaching kids their heritage language is simple: Expose them to it often. The challenge is how to do that when the parents themselves don’t speak it well, @katchow writes: theatlantic.com/family/archi…
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this incredible piece by @katchow hit me right in the heart, as someone on a journey to learn an endangered language so i can hopefully pass it down one day. 🩵 theatlantic.com/family/archi…
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Pulled out my (distant) past life in a college sorority to help produce this episode of The Waves. I find the yearly “I can’t stop watching #BamaRushTok”convo pretty tired most of the time, but this interview w/ @katchow and @tressiemcphd felt quite fresh. slate.com/podcasts/the-waves…
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7 Jun 2023
A Normal Gossip episode, but it’s 45 minutes of my dad gossiping about his visit to see his 93-year-old friend and all of the drama with the friend’s adult children
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7 Jun 2023
Gossiping with my dad, who notoriously Does Not Talk About His Feelings is one of my favorite things to do because it’s so low stakes and it lets me understand what makes him tick
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7 Jun 2023
Like, oh! Wow! Your friend’s kids did this? How would YOU feel if your kids did this?
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it’s been months and i still can’t quite believe this is real. i am endlessly grateful and excited for this book to exist in the world.
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30 Mar 2023
I wanna listen to some audiobooks (novels) in Mandarin or Cantonese. Something light & fun & that I could still follow even though I have very basic Chinese. Any recs?
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21 Mar 2023
hi Twitter, please meet my new foster pup, Harry! He’s got the biggest heart AND the biggest teef. He’s 5 years old and looking for a home in the DC area through @Ruraldogrescue
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21 Mar 2023
In the mornings Harry will try to jump up on your bed to say good morning and it will be a little startling. Because, teef. But it’s mostly cute
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21 Mar 2023
Harry just wants a furever home and a fam who will let him snuggle up on the couch and smile biiiiiig! More info via @Ruraldogrescue, pls spread the word so Harry can find his family! ruraldogrescue.com/adoptable…
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