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“Liu.”
“My white grandmother gave her baby the French name Maurice out of gratitude to the doctor and nuns who delivered him.”
“The FBI later butchered his Chinese name into Charlow.”
“Edgar Hoover ordered his first investigation into my father’s loyalties.”
“He claimed no one knew what had happened to his father in China after the Communists took over.”
“His strawberry-blond American mother had given him her graceful neck and tall, sleek but broad-shouldered build.”
“In 1942 Michael Graves joined the Communist Party.”
“* I find “Mischa” scrawled in white ink on the black vellum of a photo album from Dad’s USC years.”
“Dad was so worked up, he couldn’t tell her what had happened.”
“Luis she’d called herself ever since.”
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“Dad believed fervently in the United Nations’ goals of world peace, justice, and human rights.”
“So in 2014 I made a Freedom of Information Act request for his files.”
“He was born in 1912 in a French hospital in the International Settlement of Shanghai.”
“Six months after my father became an American, I was born.”
“I found my grandfather’s letters at the back of a basement cupboard behind crates of Christmas ornaments.”
“No, Maurice Trescott Liu kept everything, hidden in plain sight.”
“You could even make believe they were the ones who belonged to another country.”
“But then, Jane Liu was descended from Scots and Germans and born in Milwaukee.”
“After graduating from USC in 1934, he became a bit player for MGM, Warner Brothers, and Paramount.”
“After leaving USC, Glooshkoff had changed his name to Michael Nicholas Graves.”
“I decided this meant I’d gotten the story right.”
“And I might have become a chain smoker, too, had my brother not responded to my mime-puffing at age six by handing me one of Dad’s lit cigarettes and ordering me to inhale.”
“Liu” by Aimee Liu appears in the latest issue of New England Review .”
“I devoted decades to that quest.”
““Oh, Dad.” All these years, to carry so much guilt, such shame and grief.”