Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter Book

Snow White's stepmother looks like a pussycat compared to the monster under which Adeline Yen Mah suffered. The author's memoir of life in mainland China and--after the 1949 revolution--Hong Kong is a gruesome chronicle of nonstop emotional abuse from her wealthy father and his beautiful, cruel second wife. Chinese proverbs scattered throughout the text pithily covey the traditional world view that prompted Adeline's subservience. Had she not escaped to America, where she experienced a fulfilling medical career and a happy marriage, her story would be unbearable; instead, it's grimly fascinating: Falling Leaves is an Asian Mommie Dearest. Read More

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    "FALLING LEAVES, Yen Mah's first book, reads as a fresh and haunting account of a childhood that nearly paralyzed its author for life."(The Sunday Oregonian)

    "It's hard not to admire her [Mah's] persistence and perseverance..."(The New York Times Book Review)

  • 0471247421
  • 9780471247425
  • Adeline Yen Mah, Adeline Yen Mah
  • 18 February 1998
  • John Wiley & Sons
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 278
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