100 Love Notes - Brossura

Advance praise for 100 Love Notes

Hyong Yi admonishes us to “Life Fiercely. Love Completely” at the close of his moving collection, 100 Love Notes, a conversation between Dearest and Beloved, dedicated to his wife, Catherine Ann Zanga. These notes of inspiration, joy, tenacity, courage, hope and love between Catherine and Hyong move me beyond tears. That they are accompanied by the intensely vivid and evocative work by a diverse bouquet of visual artists, makes this collection a unique and powerful tribute to a woman who spent most of her adult life in public service to those in Charlotte, North Carolina. I am proud to endorse this heart-expanding book. Each page will make you fall in love again and again.

—Pam Uschuk, author of Blood Flower and Crazy Love, American Book Award

Because of these deeply affecting love notes, because of these strikingly gorgeous illustrations, we readers are able to listen to two “hearts beating together.” There is lovely humor in these pages, tender details and emotional truths. From this couple’s first date (and the whole Spanish anchovy she ate) to the anniversary of her death, we travel along with them, knowing, although the ending is not what we would wish, we all will ultimately be healed.

— Judy Goldman, author of Losing My Sister

100 Love Notes by Hyong Yi and his contributors create a flow of poetry, image, and planning, celebrating the yin and yang of Life. As Lillian Too says in Chinese Wisdom, “There can be no light (yang) without dark (yin); no day without night; no hills without valleys; no dynamism without stillness; no plus without minus; no male without female.”

—Laura Grosch, artist married to fellow artist Herb Jackson