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Falling Leaves: The Memoir Of An Unwanted Chinese Daughter - Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves: The Memoir Of An Unwanted Chinese Daughter
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P{MARGIN:0in;MARGIN-BOTTOM:.0001pt;}BLOCKQUOTE{MARGIN-TOP:0in;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0in;} "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)
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B004CRTALC
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, History, Literature, Cultural, Book Club, Asian Literature, Asia, Biography Memoir, China
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K.H. Leigh's Blogstravaganza
K.H. Leigh's Blogstravaganza rated it
3.0 Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
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I liked this book a whole lot more until the last fifty-or-so pages. At that point, it devolved into a laundry list of perceived slights, petty bickering, and old grudges. The narrator, Adeline, went from being winningly naive about her family to being determinedly oblivious, to the point that it ma...
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A Book and A Review #2
A Book and A Review #2 rated it
4.0
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This book was heartbreaking and fascinating at the same time. It was interesting to see the depths of Chinese culture against women, but then to see it in one family's case.
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La Crimson Femme
La Crimson Femme rated it
3.0
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Well, this is definitely a pretty depressing and accurate story about how women can be treated in China. The writing is so well done. I can see every single scene. I feel only sorrow after reading this book. It is a Chinese book so of course there are no happily ever afters.
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Other editions (19)
Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter - Adeline Yen Mah
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Falling Leaves 落葉歸根 - Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves - Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves: The True Story Of An Unwanted Chinese Daughter - Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves (Penguin Readers: Level 4) - Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves - Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves: The Memoir Of An Unwanted Chinese Daughter - Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves (Turtleback) - Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter - Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter - Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves - Adeline Yen Mah, Barbara Rosenblat
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter = Luo Ye GUI Gen - Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter. Adeline Yen Mah - Mah
Falling Leaves Return To Their Roots - Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter - Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter - Adeline Yen Mah
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter - Adeline Yen Mah
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