Midnight in Peking Comes to the Tattered Cover, Denver – May 4th
Posted: May 4th, 2012 | 2 Comments »I’ll be at the Tattered Cover bookstore in Denver, CO on 2526 East Colfax Avenue on May 4th at 7.30pm. And delighted to be so invited of course….
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I’ll be at the Tattered Cover bookstore in Denver, CO on 2526 East Colfax Avenue on May 4th at 7.30pm. And delighted to be so invited of course….
Mr. French:
I have just this moment finished MiP. What a wonderful work! Many, many thanks.
The book was especially compelling for me as during that time my father (in 1937 aged 9) lived just 15 miles east of Peking in Tungchow. My grandparents were medical missionaries (he was Harvard Med ’22, she was an Mass General trained nurse) in an American hospital run by the American Board. Dad and his three siblings were all born at PUMC….he’s alive and well today at 84. Dad came home to the US in early ’41…my grandfather stayed until later that fall, but on the way home docked in Manila on Dec 7. He spent the next two years in Santo Tomas, before being repatriated in late ’43 on the Gripsholm. He opened a practice of general medicine in Boston and saw patients the day he died in 1969.
I have recommended MiP to Dad…he’ll enjoy it.
Again…many thanks for telling such a wonderful tale….
HLR II
great – thanks for your comments – very kind. The Gripsholm was a ship like no other for amazing stories during the war!! Someone should gather all of them together.