Green Apple Red Book: A Trial and Errors

Honorable mentions in 2015 San Francisco, New York, and Hollywood Book Festivals, the memoir portrays the American Dream and the Chinese Dream from the perspective of a first-generation Chinese-American born in the heat of the Cultural Revolution who came to America after 1989 Tiananmen Square Protest. The book juxtaposes the story of two immigrant families caught in the crossfire of a real-life legal drama with the author's intimate narrative of searching for identity by trial and error. The American and Chinese systems of values and justice are in contrast, as the author shows the reversals of fortune and changes of fate and ambition in China and the U.S. through her journey.

With a suburban life and worldly experience, Rebecca had lived in the proverbial American Dream, only to have a rude awakening on her fortieth birthday when she received an unexpected call from the Chinese authorities on the Great Wall. Upon her return home in the U.S., she was thrown into a convoluted lawsuit that lasted years, culminating in a weeks-long jury trial in a Silicon Valley courtroom. Her trial was contemporaneous with a billion-dollar multinational corporate trial across town in San Jose, California and a politically scandalous murder trial in her once-sleepy college town in China; Her adversary was a woman who appeared to have it all, even high blood sugar. Her only connection to the plaintiff was a gifted Vietnamese American with degrees from elite universities who had vanished. The Kafkaesque trial spurred Rebecca to make a reckoning of her life, split between China and America. As she awaited the verdict, she deliberated over the paradox of wealth, class and privilege.

Rebecca Li-Huang immigrated to the U.S. in 1990. She holds graduate degrees in science and business, and has worked as an engineer, financial analyst and advisor.