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The Year of Finding Memory: A Memoir

✍ Scribed by Bates, Judy Fong

Book ID: 107902369
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 1 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780307374288

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✦ Synopsis

In the tradition of The Concubine's Children and Paper Shadows , a probing memoir from the author of the acclaimed novel Midnight at the Dragon Cafe.

An elegant and surprising book about a Chinese family's difficult arrival in Canada, and a daughter's search to understand remarkable and terrible truths about her parents' past lives.

Growing up in her father's hand laundry in small town Ontario, Judy Fong Bates listened to stories of her parents' past lives in China, a place far removed from their every-day life of poverty and misery. But in spite of the allure of these stories, Fong Bates longed to be a Canadian girl. Fifty years later she finally followed her curiosity back to her ancestral home in China for a reunion that spiralled into a series of unanticipated discoveries. Opening with a shock as moving as the one that powers The Glass Castle , The Year of Finding Memory explores a particular, yet universal, world of...

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