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A Cooked Seed (2000)

by Anchee Min(Favorite Author)

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review 1: Fascinating account of a young woman escaping a hellish life in China to come to America. Can’t believe the hard work and determination that went into her attempt to learn English, get a degree and make it in our country. She writes with such honesty about her weaknesses and mistakes, which are often just heartbreaking. It took years and years for her to make any headway, with so much labor and so many frustrations along the way, but her spirit and strength of character kept her pushing ahead. Min also offers great insight into the differences in the Chinese and American cultures.
review 2: In 1994, Anchee Min made her literary debut with a memoir of growing up in China during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. Red Azalea became an internatio... morenal bestseller and propelled her career as a successful, critically acclaimed author. Twenty years later, Min returns to the story of her own life to give us the next chapter, an immigrant story that takes her from the shocking deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the promised land of America, without language, money, or a clear path.It is a hard and lonely road. She teaches herself English by watching Sesame Street, keeps herself afloat working five jobs at once, lives in unheated rooms, suffers rape, collapses from exhaustion, marries poorly and divorces.But she also gives birth to her daughter, Lauryann, who will inspire her and finally root her in her new country. Min's eventual successes-her writing career, a daughter at Stanford, a second husband she loves-are remarkable, but it is her struggle throughout toward genuine selfhood that elevates this dramatic, classic immigrant story to something powerfully universal less

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