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| #2427880 in Books | 1999-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x6.00 x.75l, | File type: PDF | 292 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Amazing story, great read|By LoveMyBaby|I had to choose a book off of a list for my graduate cross and chose this one. Best pick ever. The author draws you into her story about her immigration into America from Hong Kong and I was able to relate to her experiences in so many ways, despite being born an American. I love her writing and details and how she incorporates her fir|.com |Born in Hong Kong to parents who immigrated there from the Toishan region of mainland China, Elaine Mar came to America in 1972, when she was not quite 6. Colorado was quite a shock to a girl who had previously shared a five-room apartment with four other
When she was five years old, M. Elaine Mar and her mother emigrated from Hong Kong to Denver to join her father in a community more Chinese than American, more hungry than hopeful.
While working with her family in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant and living in the basement of her aunt's house, Mar quickly masters English and begins to excel in school. But as her home and school life--Chinese tradition and American independence--become two increasingly disparate w...
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