Face by Aimee E Liu (.ePUB)
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Face by Aimee E Liu
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Overview: In her piercing and pignant fictional debut, Aimee E Liu crosses continents and generations, from New York’s Chinatown to pre-war Shaghai, to tell a tale of a young woman trapped between two worlds. When Maibelle Chung was growing up, she knew she was different, but hers was a difference with a twist. Only part Chinese, with curly red hair and green eyes, she felt distinctly out of place in New York’s Chinatown. Though still haunted by inexplicable nightmares seemingly connected with her youth, Maibelle is reluctantly drawn back to the city she has been avoiding and begins investigating her past. She reestablishes an uneasy relationship with her dysfunctional family-her Chinese father, once a famed photojournalist and now a reclusive putterer; her Wisconsin-born mother, whose marriage was meant to be an exotic escape; and a wacky brother and sister-and reawakens painful memories as she takes out her long-abandoned camera to help her brother’s estranged boyhood friend prepare a book on Chinatown. Maibelle’s past is indeed a tangled mess, and the resolution of her troubles is confusing; there’s simply too much going on. But this first novel is vividly told, and it offers an enticingly different slant on America’s multicultural heritage.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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