Two Heart Nuts to Crack! (2nd edition) is the first memoir of Mary Fong's A Magnificent Mess trilogy. She takes readers on a journey of her earliest recollected memories capturing cultural, intercultural and spiritual experiences in the first 27 years of her life. A personal and relatable story that shows the ups, downs, twists, and turns of events that are entertaining, frustrating, and serious -- all culminate in motivating her to seek answers to big questions about the journey of life. What is the name of the game of life? Why are there so many variations and extremes of people's life circumstances? What happens after we die?
Both the e-book and print book version of Two Heart Nuts to Crack! will take readers on a journey that includes 90+ songs from the 60s through 2019 that are matched with her life events. Integrating literature, music, lyrics, visuals, and educational videos provide an informative, aesthetic, and emotional vicarious experience for the reader to appreciate. The e-book version of the memoir will allow the reader to easily access the songs with a simple click to the internet. The print book version will have hyperlinks at their fingertips on a website and on a word document on any media device to easily click on to view or listen to songs and educational videos.
"Mary Fong has written a moving memoir about growing up in Los Angeles as the daughter of Chinese American immigrants. Her experience is at once unique and emblematic to the trials and tribulations facing immigrants of all faiths and ethnicities, and Fong captures the sometimes, troubling issues of transition and acculturation. Her story is a powerful one, earnest and true, rich with the passion of life, of the tender, unrequited love for a dear classmate, ultimately learning to overcome loss and embrace both the past and the future as one." - James Brown, author of the memoirs, The Los Angeles Diaries and This River
"Mary Fong has written a wonderful and engaging memoir detailing her experiences of childhood, including witnessing her immigrant parents' struggle to survive in the restaurant business. As a result, I have much greater compassion for people in similar circumstances. Her descriptions of various emotions and experiences growing up are vivid and they stimulated reflections on my own path, letting me enjoy childhood once again."
-Walter Semkiw, M.D., author of Origin of the Soul and The Purpose of Reincarnation, as well as Born Again
