{"product_id":"9780062273352-the-year-she-left-us-a-novel","title":"Ma Kathryn - The Year She Left Us A Novel - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Three generations of Chinese - American women in a San Francisco family must confront their past and carve out a future in this extraordinary novel a haunting debut full of shimmering and unforgettable characters. (New York Times Book Review) 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 Mao's Revolution and her sister Les a brilliant judge with a penchant to rule over everyone's lives. As they cope with Ari's journey of discovery and its aftermath the Kong women will come face to face with the truths of their lives four powerful intertwining stories of accomplishment tenacity secrets loneliness and love. Beautifully illuminating the bonds of family and blood The Year She Left Us explores the promise and pain of adoption the price of assimilation and achievement the debt we owe to others and what we owe ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The Year She Left Us A Novel\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Ma Kathryn\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Harpercollins\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780062273352\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 352 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 5\/12\/2015\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ma Kathryn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49589917679921,"sku":"IN-G-9780062273352","price":19.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780062273352-the-year-she-left-us-a-novel","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}