Twenty years old Meihua came to realization that she had always been in love with her mother’s former lover “Uncle” Weiming, whom she considered as her father during her childhood. Her mother Meiling’s breaking up with “Uncle” Weiming when Meihua was fourteen years old had left a deep ...
Twenty years old Meihua came to realization that she had always been in love with her mother’s former lover “Uncle” Weiming, whom she considered as her father during her childhood. Her mother Meiling’s breaking up with “Uncle” Weiming when Meihua was fourteen years old had left a deep scar in her heart. She finally figured out that it was more than a father-daughter’s love. She was on a journey to search for him, “Uncle” Weiming.
Born and raised in Beijing, China, Lisa Zhang Wharton is a graduate of Peking University and University of Minnesota. She is an engineer by education and an author by avocation. She has previously published several short stories about life in China in various literary magazines. Her short story “My Uncle” has won a second prize in a WICE sponsored Paris Writer’s Workshop. “Last Kiss in Tiananmen Square” is her first full-length novel.