The Dragon’s Tale

About the Book

In The Dragon’s Tale, Edi Holley paints an engaging and memorable portrait of her childhood in China and New Hampshire during the 1940s and 1950s. A series of vivid and swift-moving vignettes transports us from rice paddies to the Dragon Boat Festival, from mountains to recipes for Zong Zi and moon cookies to the story of the Silk Road, to Christmas on in a New Hampshire farmhouse, to Japanese bombs, and to the approach of Mao Tse-tung. Holley’s warm and deft writing style sharply evokes both family members and intense sights and the sounds and smells of China with captivating results. —Brian Evans-Jones, former poet laureate of Hampshire, UK, winner of the 2017 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers

About the Author

Holley is an artist and writer who has written eight books of stories, two novellas and three poetry chapbooks. She holds an MFA from Yale and reads on the New York Poetry Circuit. She has two children. She was born in China of missionary parents. She has lived in New York most of her life and now lives in New Hampshire. This memoir describes her experiences living in China.