Books by Leon
Stories that sit at the intersection of family, memory, and what it means to live well — told bilingually, for readers in both English and Chinese.
A bilingual English-Chinese series exploring what grandparents leave behind — in life and in death. Two books, two perspectives, one family across time.
Grandfather Is Going To Die
爺爺的30個人生哲學 — Grandpa's 30 Life Philosophies
The first book in the Grandfather Series. Thirty life philosophies drawn from a grandfather's final season — on courage, regret, love, and the art of dying well. A meditation on how we choose to live when we know the end is near.
When a family learns the grandfather is dying, everyone falls silent — except the grandfather himself. Over thirty conversations, he shares the philosophies that shaped his life: lessons about work, love, failure, forgiveness, and what it means to leave the world a little better than you found it. Written in parallel English and Chinese, this book is for anyone who has ever sat beside someone they were about to lose and wished they had asked more questions while they still could.
- —Living with intention in the face of mortality
- —The wisdom passed between generations
- —Courage, regret, and the art of letting go
- —Bilingual family stories across cultures
"A book for anyone who has ever sat beside someone they were about to lose."
— Leon E. La Couvée
ISBN 978-626-364-337-6
Grandfather Is Dead
爺爺的30片拼圖 — Grandpa's 30-Piece Puzzle
The second book in the Grandfather Series. A bilingual English-Chinese novella about memory, loss, and the stories we assemble from the fragments the dead leave behind. Told through thirty pieces of a puzzle found in a grandfather's study.
What do the dead leave behind? Not just things — but fragments of a self. In this bilingual novella, a grandson discovers a jigsaw puzzle in his grandfather's study. Each of the thirty pieces unlocks a memory, a story, a version of the man he thought he knew. The puzzle is never quite finished. Neither is grief. But in the act of assembling the pieces — in the choosing and fitting and sometimes forcing — we come to understand not just who our grandfather was, but who we are becoming. By accepting that life isn't forever, we finally learn how to live.
- —Memory, grief, and the fragments the dead leave behind
- —A grandson's journey to understand a life fully lived
- —Thirty puzzle pieces, thirty recovered stories
- —The beauty and incompleteness of human memory
"By accepting that life isn't forever, we finally learn how to live."
— Brett Lindsay