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The Eighth Promise
''The Eighth Promise: An American Son's Tribute to His Toisanese Mother'' is a memoir written by William Poy Lee published in 2007 by Rodale Books. The paperback version was released October 2007 and the author is working with Chinese Professors of American language and Culture Studies on a translation into Mandarin Chinese.
==Plot synopsis==
The author's mother makes her mother eight promises before she leaves war-torn China to join her husband in America in 1950. The eighth is the most influential to the author. In the book, the authors writes:
"It is the Eighth Promise -- to live with compassion toward all -- that I think of as the ever-living promise, the one for all of one's days. And this promise, this way -- perhaps arising to the level of a moral path -- strikes me as the distillation of all the wisdom of my kin."
In the book, author William Poy Lee gives us a rare memoir that touches on many dimensions beyond his personal experience. His moving stories start amidst the Southern Chinese farming villages of Toisan, where his mother was born in 1926 and raised and later left after World War II. Structurally, the book alternates chapters between the author's voice and that of his mother, whom the author interviewed in her original Toisanese dialect. But the main part of the book is set against the background of the San Francisco of the 1960s and 1970s. He successfully utilizes his narrative to summarize the upheavals of civil rights era, Vietnam War, and the counterculture and of his own coming-of-age.
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