Daughter of Heaven : a Memoir with Earthly Recipes.
The powerful yet touching memoir of a Chinese-American woman and her grandmother by an extraordinarily talented author who has been compared to Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston. Leslie Li belongs to the illustrious Li family of Guilin, China. Her paternal grandfather, Li Zongren, was China's fi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated,
2011.
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ProQuest Ebook Central Full text (three concurrent Emmanuel users only). |
| Summary: | The powerful yet touching memoir of a Chinese-American woman and her grandmother by an extraordinarily talented author who has been compared to Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston. Leslie Li belongs to the illustrious Li family of Guilin, China. Her paternal grandfather, Li Zongren, was China's first elected vice president, to whom Chiang Kai-shek left control of the country when he fled to Formosa. Leslie's father was studying in the US when he met and married her American-born mother. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (166 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781628722482 1628722487 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |