Fae Myenne Ng

Cover, Barbara Klar

PROLOGUE

Balloon Peddlers

Manhattan, Gowanus Canal, San Francisco

Ch. 2

Big Aunt, Big Uncle

Chinatown map

You Thin Toy

On the S.S. Coolidge

Paper name, in metal.

Paper name, on seal fur

Bachelors in Golden Gate Park

Sea forecasting

You Thin Toy

The Sailor and the Outlaw

Ner Wesley

Bachelor year

1947

1954

CH. 16

For Barbara

Woodstock

Happy Birthday, Fae 1989

New York City

Red Dreaming Red

The Traveler

Peeking

For Mei Wah

Deia

MOIRA JANE DRYER

August 9,1957 - May 20, 1992

CH. 14

Aunt Juvenda (right)

March 9, 1940- September 7, 2023

Ch. 7

Class Photo

Writers Writing

Confucius, on chalkboard

Yang Gweifei visits

Mister Dewdrop visits

Dewdrop

Moffit Library

Dewdrop

Ishii Court

Mister Dewdrop

Gretel Ehrlich

After teaching my class

Ch. 8

Chinese Confession Program

1956-1966

Taan Bak, Confess

Calligraphy, Linette Lee Char

CH. 10

High desert

CAL

Hummingbird nest, Sproul Hall

Elizabeth and Lina

Jai

Ch. 16

Moira and Mei Wah

New York City

Barbara Klar, Metalsmith

Williamsburg

CH. 17

NIGHT TITANIC

John Mercer Wesley

TWO NIGHT TITANICS KISSING

Ner Wesley

Ch. 18

Guandao, Crescent Moon Saber

BETTY ANN ONG 鄧月薇

Februay 5, 1956 - September 11, 2001

She worked on Flight 11 and made the call to the authorities just before the plane hit the North Tower. Every 9-11, in honor of my Chinatown classmate, all my students listen to the recording of Betty Ong's last minutes on American Airlines.

CH.19

Patricia and Big Head

After labor

Newborns

Anne Twitty

Brooklyn

Mister Dewdrop, aglow

Mister Dewdrop falls asleep while I'm grading finals

Mister Dewdrop's Xray

$135!

Yang Gweifei

Yang Gweifei's foot inspires Metalsmith Klar's

famous Polka Dot Ring, so big you can set your cocktail on it.

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My brother answers THE QUESTION MAN.

The Villa Rosa

Cumberland Chinese School

poems

Ch. 20

Sailing the Straits

Bonsai Nectarines

High Desert

EPILOGUE

The Wheelchair Bachelor

San Francisco, 2022

Great Grandfather

1954

Orphan Bachelors

Ross Alley, 1898

Timothy K. Toy

February 5, 1966 - March 6, 2015

All Stories Float Ashore: Fae Myenne Ng on the Chinese Titanic Poet-Sailor Deportee