by Patti Isaacs I had the huge pleasure of meeting Patti Isaacs years ago when she attended a critique group to which I belonged. I got to see the first version of The Second Long March, a memoir based on her and her husband’s year of teaching in China in 1981 just as the country began to open up. The book has just published by Atmosphere Press! I had the great fortune of reading an advance copy and she perfectly captures the transformative experience of a young American woma