Wedding in Yangshuo by Linda Crew

Wedding in Yangshuo reveals the origins of Linda Crew’s award-winning YA classic, Children of the River, and the subsequent impact the writing of this novel had on her family. While the Southeast Asian refugees who worked on her farm inspired an interest in the dramatic escapes from their war-torn homeland, these same friendships were kindling in her little boy an interest in all things Asian, ultimately leading to a trip to China for the author and her husband to witness his marriage to a Chinese girl from the beautiful city of Yangshuo. For readers of Children of the River who ask if Sundara and Jonathan were married in the end, real life imitates art in this cross-cultural love story.