Percakapan antara kakek dan Uncle Fong yang lebih ke cela-mencela sangat menggelitik dan kocak. Petualangan demi petualangan pun dijalani mereka bertiga. Setiap gambar yang Steve buat menjadi nyata! Waaaww! Ternyata kuas ajaiibbbb.! :D Dan yang tak disangka-sangka pun terjadi. Malam itu, setelah Steve menunjukkan nilai F nya, kakeknya memberikan dia sebuah kuas baru. Kakeknya tidak tinggal sendiri, ada seorang tua lagi yang dipanggil Uncle FOng, sahabat kecil kakeknya, yang tinggal bersama mereka juga. Akhirnya dia menunda kepulangannya dari sekolah dan telat sampai rumah. Steve takut menunjukkan nilainya ke kakeknya, dan takut juga minta kuas yang baru. Ketakutan Steve makin bertambah ketika dalam pelajaran art, pelajaran yang paling dia suka, Steve mendapat nilai F gara-gara kuasnya sudah mulai rontok. Steve tidak mengenal kakeknya, dan dari cara kakeknya menegur dia dengan cara yang jauh dari kelembutan, Steve selalu takut dan yakin kalau kakeknya tidak mengharapkan kehadiran dirinya di sana. Ketika pindah untuk tinggal di Chinatown bersama kakeknya, Steve baru saja kehilangan kedua orang tuanya dalam kebakaran hebat. Today as well as writing, he has taught writing and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1975. After two years at Marquette University, Yep transferred to the University of California at Santa Cruz where he graduated in 1970 with a B.A. However, it was while attending high school that he started writing for a science fiction magazine, being paid one cent a word for his efforts. During high school he faced the white American culture for the first time. Other students at the school, according to Yep, labeled him a "dumbbell Chinese" because he spoke only English. They later married and now live in San Francisco.Īlthough not living in Chinatown, Yep commuted to a parochial bilingual school there. Joanne Ryder, a children's book author, and Yep met and became friends during college while she was his editor.
He was in his own words his neighborhood's "all-purpose Asian" and did not feel he had a culture of his own. Growing up in San Francisco, Yep felt alienated. After troubling times during the Depression, he was able to open a grocery store in an African-American neighborhood. Yep's father, Thomas, was born in China and came to America at the age of ten where he lived, not in Chinatown, but with an Irish friend in a white neighborhood. Franche Lee, her family's youngest child, was born in Ohio and raised in West Virginia where her family owned a Chinese laundry. Born Jin San Francisco, California, Yep was the son of Thomas Gim Yep and Franche Lee Yep.
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