Vanessa Hua

thumb|Vanessa Hua in 2018 Vanessa Hua is a journalist and writer. Quotes I think often, especially with immigrant narratives, or narratives from marginalized communities, there is room for only one narrative or that there’s only stereotypes or statistics. A River of Stars does kind of show that we do have different histories, dreams, flaws, and ambitions, and I hope people are able to really see the fullness of the humanity of each character, whether they’re major or minor. On how she believes her novel expands the immigrant narrative in “A Conversation with Vanessa Hua” in Read It Forward I think the American dream is still what gets us out of bed every day, that life can be better… On the state of the “American Dream” in “A Conversation with Vanessa Hua” in Read It Forward Characters, even though they’re minor, shouldn’t be a device. No person should be a device to move the plot along. That’s when you run into problems with stereotypes. I strive, in my journalism and my fiction, to make characters as complex and complicated as they are in real life… On how she writes characters in “Motherhood and Migration: An Interview with Vanessa Hua on ‘A River of Stars’” in Los Angeles Review of Books (September 13, 2018) Fiction fosters empathy among readers by putting them in a position to consider deeply someone’s history, hopes, and ambitions… On how fiction might differ from her journalist works in “Motherhood and Migration: An Interview with Vanessa Hua on ‘A River of Stars’” in Los Angeles Review of Books (September 13, 2018) External links Category:Taiwanese Americans Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Journalists from the United States Category:Living people Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Stanford University alumni Category:Women authors from the United States