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The Apricot Outlook tells the heartfelt story of a Chinese woman growing up in Hawaii and moving to San Francisco and Hayward after her marriage. It is a family story in the spirit of the popular Joy Luck Club. It celebrates the close bonds in a Chinese family and the way family members and close friends help others in a time of crisis and need.
The story begins when Katherine Chun is first growing up in Honolulu, where her parents run a local laundry. Unfortunately, a fire erupts in the rear of the laundry and eventually contributes to the sale of the business. Meanwhile, as a teenager and young adult, Katherine finds work in a number of different occupations — from working in a beauty salon to working in a candy factory. In her 20s, she marries a pipefitter and welder, Clifford Wong, whose job takes him to the shipyards in San Francisco and then to Alameda.
Over time, the marriage has its ups and downs and is threatened when Katherine believes her husband is having an affair with a good friend. Yet, the marriage survives, and the family grows as Katherine has six children and even more grandchildren, while maintaining strong ties with a growing number of cousins, uncles, and aunts, reflecting the importance of family for Chinese-Americans. The story also features the many activities Katherine enjoys, from traveling to going on jaunts to Las Vegas.
The script is based on the real-life experiences of my mother Katherine Wong, based on a book I created for her on her 77th birthday. As such, it features a true picture of what life is like for an ordinary middle-income Chinese family in modern America. When my mother died, I pledged I would publish a book about her life, and I have now created this script in her memory.
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This is a story of transmigration. Death comes upon Lucinda’s parents when she least expects it. She is just ten years old when she experiences the agony of losing her beloved parents. As a result, she leaves her parents house to her grandparents home, who live beyond the mountain ranges, in the mist of the woods. While there she reunites with her dead parents in an unusual manner that defies natural logic.
She communicates and shares life with her dead parents to the consternation of her grandparents who sees her insane, until just a few days before another painful separation between daughter and parents. Is it possible her grandparents will ever believe that her experiences are real? Will she live with her parents until her own death?
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This is a story of a clash of two generations; a discordance of two personalities; a subliminal chord of racism, all playing out in the individualism of the two lovers and the man’s mother, all three engage in a vortex of drama, each ruled by the emotive factors of their own generation, but Mrs.
Kate is engrossed in a stereotype she is raised with a child, a stereotype that eventually proves to be false, for in the end, love embedded in passion and empathy conquers and envelopes the evil of stereotypes, shining forth like the blazing sun of the summer.
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As Appy plans to retire,
he reminisces his first day of hire
longing and wishing to aspire
acquiring a trade while we perspire
educating at schools of learning higher
gathering experiences to fulfil his desire
observing caterpillars morph into stages they require
waiting for the butterflies as they transpire
counting down the days to the wire
and finally enjoying his fruitful endeavour.
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Appy graduates from high school in “The App I Cot Journey to Plumville: Empowering Kids to Overcome Adversity”. He continues his journey to college and graduates as an engineer. Appy’s career takes him all over the world before settling down and starting a family.
ABOUT AUTHOR
The Best Selling Author Dennis WC Wong
The author recently become THE BEST SELLING AUTHOR for his book “The App I Cot Journey to Plumville: Empowering Kids to Overcome Adversity”. Which is a I book o Appy series and secured its TOP #1 position under 9 categories in Amazon.in.
Author started his journey in 2002 when he wrote “My Journey” while attending a nurse assistant class. Mr. Wong wrote “The Apricot Outlook of Katherine Koon Hung Wong.” He continued with the apricot theme with an app story that travels to better itself and achieve its reward in the end. He currently works at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA as a Nurse Assistant in the Operating Room Department and became a Licensed Vocational Nurse doing home health care. Also, as a Sterile Processing Technician, Mr. Wong volunteers with Surgical Missions to Guatemala and Ecuador.
Publisher SankalpArt LLC an Author’s Dream also become best book selling publishing house in 2022 as within a month gave two best selling authors back to back!
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An app’s journey that keeps maintaining itself for better health, wants to be an engineer, but the better schools were in the town of Plumville.
It enrolled in Plumville High School knowing that it may encounter some adversity or bullying. Striving to achieve a better life, it faces the challenges ahead.
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Lucinda, daughter of the Moon and Stars, yearns to use her powers effectively to achieve inner peace when she stumbles upon the Book of Prophesy. It holds the truth and guidance. Will she be able to locate the key to unlock it and find the answer she seeks?
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Mysteries, mysticism, the supernatural – all became a mosaic of Lucinda’s world. She never thought she was going to hear from them again.
Lucinda had gone back to her father’s house hoping to see her parent’s spirit, but only to realize once more that she wouldn’t be able to see them. Instead, she could only hear them.