Inside the Untold Struggles and Triumphs of Carol Lin: A Memoir That Reveals the True Cost of Breaking News
The story honors the Chinese tradition to gift jewelry to a bride, not for the sake of possessing something of value, rather, to own something she could sell for her security if necessary someday. No matter how much my mother might cherish this jade, she must be prepared to trade it to survive. Isn’t that the choice so many women face, the letting go of the things we value most? I chose the jade for the book cover for this reason. At first, my publisher was unsure of the connection between jewelry and journalism, but that scene is the subliminal backbone to my story; a woman’s love and loss, letting go, and doing what’s necessary for the future she could not yet imagine. This is the arc of the memoir.
