Falling Leaves: The Memoir Of An Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah

Falling Leaves: The Memoir Of An Unwanted Chinese Daughter

Adeline Yen Mah

316 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional medium-paced
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1940s, Shanghai. As the civil war rages on and China falls under communist rule, young Adeline lives in constant fear. Not of the war, but of her family: blamed for the death of her mother, she is rejected by her father and abused by her cruel ste...

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