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Sui Sin Far (1865-1914) http://tinyurl.com/SSFar

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Lae Choo's Heart

From "In the Land of the Free," 1909. Read Online Download PDF

Reader: Jessica Teeter

California has long attracted immigrants from all over the world. But the promise of opportunity here has sometimes been withheld by stubborn prejudice and unfair treatment.

Sui Sin Far—who also wrote under the name Edith Maude Eaton—dramatized issues of immigration in her work. Here, a young Chinese mother yearns for her undocumented child, taken from her upon her return to San Francisco.

The winter rains were over: the spring had come to California, flushing the hills with green and causing an ever-changing pageant of flowers to pass over them. But there was no spring in Lae Choo's heart, for the Little One remained away from her arms. He was being kept in a mission. White women were caring for him, and though for one full moon he had pined for his mother and refused to be comforted he was now apparently happy and contented. Five moons or five months had gone by since the day he had passed with Lae Choo through the Golden Gate; but the great Government in Washington still delayed sending the answer which would return him to his parents.

Sui Sin Far first published "In the Land of the Free" in the New York Independent in 1909.