Author: Zoey Gong

At 27, Winnie is on the verge of becoming an old maid. And she’s just fine with that. In medical school and studying for admission to an exclusive training program, Winnie just needs a few more years to get her life in order before she can even think about getting married. But her mother has Read More

Stories of loss, longing, and love, follow three young women and their animal friends on three incredible journeys. A Girl and Her Elephant Raised in the mountains of northern Siam, Kanita’s idyllic life is shattered when she is ordered to marry a much older man and leave her beloved yet cursed elephant behind. But Kanita’s Read More

She didn’t plan on becoming a rebel… After watching her parents serve in British households for her whole life, Priya grew to despise every aspect of British colonialism. After an introduction to a British family in an attempt to secure a servant position of her own ends in disaster, Priya runs away to try and Read More

Chapter 1 Priya reached up to the top of her mother’s closet and pulled the box down, as she had done so many times in her life. She lifted the lid and couldn’t help but smile at the first glimpse of the bright red silk inside. Her grandmother’s wedding sari was the most beautiful thing Read More

Lihua never could have imagined that the birth of a little brother would end the life she knew. Raised in a poor country village, Lihua prayed her parents would have a son to bring peace and balance to the family. But she did not foresee how living in such poverty would force her parents to Read More

There were some scenes in A Girl and Her Panda that were very hard to write because they were very personal to me. My little sister is adopted, and I dedicated the book to her Before my American parents adopted her, I didn’t know much about adoption even though it has a long history in China. Adoption Read More

Today is Ghost Festival here in China. It is not as popularly known abroad like Spring Festival, but I think it is far more interesting. It is the Chinese festival that is most similar to Halloween, so it is becoming a bit more popular over here among young people. In Chinese, we call Ghost Festival Zhongyuan Read More

Chapter One “You’re it!” one of the kids yelled as she caught sight of Lihua. Lihua squealed with laughter as she stood up from her hiding place and looked for the other children. She easily found two other girls who couldn’t stop laughing. They jumped up and playfully fought over who would actually be it. Read More

All of the elephants wept as one of their own lay dying in childbirth. But Kanita, the daughter of the royal elephant trainer, refused to give up. With her own hands, she helped bring the baby elephant, Safi, into the world, beginning a lifelong friendship between a girl and her elephant. But many of the Read More

While A Girl and Her Elephant is about Kanita (the girl) and Safi (her elephant), they do happen to run across a prince. I’m not going to give anything away about that, but I had picked the name “Mongkut” for the prince because it means “crown” in Thai. But while I was researching Thailand’s history, Read More