Host of Memories: Tales of Inevitable Happenstance - Rupert Lighte, Peter
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This collection of personal stories reveals just how powerfully one man's present has been shaped by the richness of his past. Following his parents' divorce in segregated pre-Castro Miami in the late 1950s, Peter Rupert Lighte moved with his fragile mother to New York City, where he was raised amidst a community of eccentric and loving relatives and friends. In Host of Memories, he shares tales of his early years as an awkward "only child"; his Jewish roots; his fortuitous encounters with Chinese culture; his embrace of sexuality; life in Beijing, London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo; dreams of…mehr

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This collection of personal stories reveals just how powerfully one man's present has been shaped by the richness of his past. Following his parents' divorce in segregated pre-Castro Miami in the late 1950s, Peter Rupert Lighte moved with his fragile mother to New York City, where he was raised amidst a community of eccentric and loving relatives and friends. In Host of Memories, he shares tales of his early years as an awkward "only child"; his Jewish roots; his fortuitous encounters with Chinese culture; his embrace of sexuality; life in Beijing, London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo; dreams of fatherhood; and much more. He ultimately find his future husband--a distinguished English composer--and, together with their two adopted daughters, as sense of belonging.
Autorenporträt
Peter Rupert Lighte, a sinologist and founding chariman of J.P. Morgan Chase Bank China, lives in Princeton, NJ with his husband, Julian Grant. They have two grown adopted Chinese daughters. He is also the author of Pieces of China and Straight Through tghe Labyringh: Becoming a Gay Father