The Writer

This is a love story that belongs to Lily and Biff. It contains much fiction and much non-fiction. There is adventure, mystery, and murder. There are cultural, social and political elements of significance. There is a quest for conscience and there is more. The reader will be left, at the end of this journey, with a challenge which began early in the story---to define the genre into which this story fits. In addition to the above, this book is a missile through literature as studied and taught by the author, primarily in his native country of America and his often visited second home in Mainland China. Throughout, it is a call for reading the best literature one can find, and for using it as a resource for your own writing. It also calls for interactivity of the life experiences such as presented herein and encourages intrusion into the narrative, where the author can be closest to the creative force of intuition. If the unusual style bothers anyone, the author apologizes.