Meimei first gained notoriety as a precocious toddler who used to amaze her parents' friends with her ability to read Newsweek and Reader's Digest on her own, which also led to teasing from said parents' friends' kids. As a middle schooler she scandalized her teachers with book reports on Danielle Steel and John Grisham; by the time she was in high school, she was reading Albert Camus and Jack Kerouac while still maintaining her social status as a dork.
Judged purely by her bookshelves, The Scribe is a royalty-obsessed, chick lit-lovin,’ alterno-fantasy gal with comic strip tendencies. It’s an impressionist sketch of this thirty-something freelance writer living la vida Narnia in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Mei and Happy Scribe hit the ground writing at their high school pubroom, with a brief ‘zine stint on one-issue wonder “Biatche” thrown onstage at various grunge concerts.
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