Authors Peter Hessler and Leslie Chang stand with their daughters, Ariel and Natasha, outside their Ridgway home prior to moving to China. Photo by Olivia Exstrum.
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Ridgway family heads to China
By Olivia Exstrum, Special to the Plaindealer
One summer a couple years ago, Leslie Chang let out a huge sigh of relief. Chang, an author and journalist, had just arrived in Colorado after a grueling flight from Cairo, Egypt, where she, her husband and their twin daughters had lived for several years.
“It was like this physical sense of relief,” Chang recalled. “Like, I’ve been holding my breath, and now I can relax.”
When Chang and her husband, author Peter Hessler...
