The Right to Love was inspired by two special people who fell deeply in love as teenagers but were separated by circumstances beyond their control. After thirty-five years, they were finally reunited, briefly, before death. The book is written in straightforward, yet poetic, language, deals with age-old issues that touch on love, sexuality, loyalty, morality, and family. The novel is an in-depth probe of the emotional triangle of wife-husband-lover, testing the limits of endurance among them and the possibilities for acceptance and redemption.
Katherine Yu currently lives in Los Angeles with her three daughters. She is a novelist, screenplay writer, poet, born in Mainland China. Ms. Yu moved to the U.S.A. and earned a master's degree in film from the American University in Washington, D.C.