Angela Lam | The Sun Magazine

Angela Lam

Angela Lam is a writer and fitness enthusiast living in Santa Rosa, California. Her essay in this issue is part of an unpublished book-length memoir. She is currently working on a novel.

— From March 2004
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Red Eggs

I am eleven, not quite a little girl, not quite a young woman. There are things I know that I should not know, things of which I am not to speak, such as: I am not supposed to know that my father is a checkout clerk, not the grocery-store manager. I am not supposed to know the dolls I play with are stolen.

March 2004
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