Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
by Adeline Yen Mah
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages278 pages
ISBN
9780767903578
Published
1997
Description
Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealt...Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of a cruel and manipulative eurasian stepmother.