Cong Yan

A group of highly achieved "Seagull Professors" living and working in the United States and China struggled with their soul-searching of personal identity and loyalty. They were puzzled by the meaning of their life destination and rewards - fame, wealth, health, living in comfort, etc.. Then they began to travel, and to find out the happiness that really matters to them.

I often wrote memory articles to record the past. These are the true portrayal of my life and feeling. The articles recorded my happy childhood, harsh and industrious teenage, confused and helpless send-down youth, and memorable college life. They also described my romance, and miss of my parents. These experience may not be so important to others, but are precious memories to me. For those disappeared days, I publish this collection to commemorate the life, which would never happen again.

Cong Yan is a passionate fiction writer and a poet living in Carmel, Indiana, USA. In addition to this fiction collection, he also authored fictions of "Seagull Professor", "Blooming Azalea", "Bloody Rose", etc.. He is also a photographer who loves to travel and catch amazing moments of landscape and people using camera. Currently, he is a professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine.