Anne Hellman is a Brooklyn-based writer and author whose stories and essays have appeared in Catapult, Tertulia, and other publications. She founded The Grandmother Project website (grandmotherproject.net) in 2020 and is currently a Writing Mentor for Girls Write Now. Anne is at work on two novels, and in nonfiction she published Design Brooklyn with Abrams in 2013. https://linktr.ee/ahellman
In 2010, Kim Liao traveled to Taiwan to learn the truth about her family. Her grandfather Thomas Liao was the leader of the Provisional Republic of Taiwan in exile after World War II, but she knew virtually nothing about his life and what had happened to him. What Kim did know was that Thomas’s wife Anna, her grandmother, moved to America with her four children to start a new life and leave Thomas Liao’s past behind.