How Bing Cherries Led Me to Ah Bing

My final book-tour stop brought me to Milwaukie, Oregon, where the Chinese immigrant behind the famous fruit is finally getting his due.

The day I visited Ledding Library, I found a cherry tree in the lobby. Not a real one, but a wooden wishing tree where hundreds of library visitors had hung cherry cut-outs personalized with their own hopes and dreams. I was half an hour early for my talk on my new book Bing’s Cherries and…

Julia Kuo