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Kirstin Chen

Kirstin Chen is the author of Soy Sauce for Beginners, featured in USA Today's "New Voices", an O, The Oprah Magazine book to pick up now, and a Glamour book club pick. A former Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing, she holds an MFA from Emerson College and a BA from Stanford University. She was born and raised in Singapore and currently lives in San Francisco, where she's at work on her second novel, set on a tiny island off the coast of southern China in 1958. Visit her at kirstinchen.com

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Abandoned by Booklikes rated it

11 years ago

text Soy Sauce for Beginners

Kristin Chen's debut novel hits all the right notes out of the gate. I wish that "Crazy Rich Asians" had taken a page out of her book. Ms. Chen ensures that you get fully immersed in Singapore by following only one protagonist, Gretchen Lin. We do get some of the "crazy rich Asians" elements when Ms...

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more focus, miss mori rated it

11 years ago

text Soy Sauce for Beginners

This book was foodie heaven and a nearly gospel-like tribute to its settings.Also Gretchen is pretty cool. She clearly needs to get her life together at the beginning, but even so you can tell through her narration that she's trying her best to keep calm despite the fact that her problems are so har...

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