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Available
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Publication
Rodale
DDC/MDS
973.049510092 |
Description
In the best-selling tradition of The Color of Water comes a beautifully written, evocative memoir of a relationship between a mother and son-and the Chinese-American experience In The Eighth Promise, author William Poy Lee gives us a rare view of the Asian-American experience from a mother-son perspective. His moving and complex story of growing up in the housing projects of San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1960s and '70s unfolds in two voices-the author's own and that of his mother-to provide a sense of tradition and culture. It is a stunning tale of murder, injustice, fortitude, and survival. Already, this exquisitely wrought memoir is garnering rave notices.
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LibraryThing member markleon
This memoir traced the history of a Chinese-American man growing up in Chinatown in San Francisco. The memoir purported to be a tribute to his mother. However, the best parts of the book were when the author related his experiences during the '60s and '70s when there was social upheaval in
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Chinatown. The parts about his mother were less interesting and less convincing. Show Less
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ISBN
159486456x / 9781594864568
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