The Ghost Bride
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Jun 17 2019
isn:
9780062227386
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Outrun the Moon
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Nov 16 2017
isn:
9780698198043
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For Today I Am a Boy
reviewdate:
Oct 1 2017
isn:
9780544032408
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Chemistry
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Mar 10 2017
isn:
9781524731748
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Unpolished Gem: My Mother, My Grandmother and Me
reviewdate:
Feb 13 2017
isn:
9781846271434
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China Dolls
reviewdate:
Apr 13 2015
isn:
9780812992892
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Cooked Seed
You may recall that I was enthusiastic about Min's first memoir, Red Azalea and her novel Wild Ginger. I expected to like Cooked Seed twice as hard. It starts more or less where Azalea leaves off--at Min's emigration to the US. Somehow, even after the stories of Cultural Revolution privations, cruelties and humiliations in the first part, Seed is harder to take. I guess because you can blame Min's problems on her, or maybe because you have to blame some of her problems on the United States.
reviewdate:
Oct 19 2013
isn:
978-1-60819-424-7
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Red Azalea
If you're paying much closer attention to my reviews than I think you are, you will recall that I gave a thumbs up to Anchee Min's coming of age in China during the Cultural Revolution story, Wild Ginger, back in July ought eight. Red Azalea covers similar territory, but this time it's openly autobiographical.
reviewdate:
Jan 11 2010
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0-679-42332-x
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Shanghai Girls
I was so psyched to read Lisa See's new historical novel that I snatched it off the cataloging truck to get at it faster. With that kind of build up, it would have been surprising if I liked it as much as I expected to, so maybe it's not Shanghai Girls's fault that I didn't love it.
reviewdate:
Aug 22 2009
isn:
978-1-4000-6711-4