Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah

Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

Adeline Yen Mah

nonfiction biography memoir emotional medium-paced

288 pages | first published 1997

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The story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. A story of greed, hatred and jealousy; a domestic dram...
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