Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
Author: Adeline Yen Mah
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 t….Read More
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