Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair With China Gone Wrong - Brossura

Blumberg-Kason, Susan

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ISBN 10: 1402293348 ISBN 13: 9781402293344

Casa editrice: Sourcebooks Inc, 2014

Riassunto

A stunning memoir of an intercultural marriage gone wrong

When Susan, a shy Midwesterner in love with Chinese culture, started graduate school in Hong Kong, she quickly fell for Cai, the Chinese man of her dreams. As they exchanged vows, Susan thought she'd stumbled into an exotic fairy tale, until she realized Cai—and his culture—where not what she thought.

In her riveting memoir, Susan recounts her struggle to be the perfect traditional "Chinese" wife to her increasingly controlling and abusive husband. With keen insight and heart-wrenching candor, she confronts the hopes and hazards of intercultural marriage, including dismissing her own values and needs to save her relationship and protect her newborn son, Jake. But when Cai threatens to take Jake back to China for good, Susan must find the courage to stand up for herself, her son, and her future.

Moving between rural China and the bustling cities of Hong Kong and San Francisco, Good Chinese Wife is an eye-opening look at marriage and family in contemporary China and America and an inspiring testament to the resilience of a mother's love—across any border.

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Recensione:

An American freelance journalist s painful account of how a hasty marriage to a Chinese man turned her life upside down... it is the author s courage to face her mistakes that makes the book worthwhile. --Kirkus June 15

L'autore:

SUSAN BLUMBERG-KASON is a freelance journalist in Chicago. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Sun Times, TimeOut Chicago, Journal of the American Dietetic Association, and Chicago Parent magazine. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and three children.

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• Editore: Sourcebooks Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1402293348
• ISBN 13: 9781402293344
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 340