Denise Chong books

Lives of the Family (2013)

All through school, her family name had been recorded at the whim of her teachers as Ling or Way or Nee. Helen’s father gave his name variously as Ling Way and as Ling Nee. He had no concern for how it was anglicized or spelled. When he’d first arrived in Ottawa two decades earlier, in 1921, and ...