G364 Book Review of The Year She Left Us by Kathryn Ma
Name of Book: The Year She Left Us Author: Kathryn Ma ISBN: 978-0-06-227334-5 Publisher: Harper Collins Type of book: International adoption, single parenting, lawyers, interracial relationships, multi-generational book, troublemaker, incompleteness, friendship, siblings Year it was published: 2014 Summary: From the winner of the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize—comes the extraordinary, unexpected debut tale of three generations of Chinese-American women in a San Francisco family who must confront their past and carve out a future. The Kong women are in crisis. A disastrous trip to visit her "home" orphanage in China has plunged eighteen-year-old Ari into a self-destructive spiral. Her adoptive mother, Charlie, a lawyer with a great heart, is desperate to keep her daughter safe. Meanwhile, Charlie must endure the prickly scrutiny of her beautiful, Bryn Mawr educated mother, Gran—who, as the daughter of a cultured Chinese doctor, came to America to survive M...