02378cam a2200313 4500 545402944 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781608194247 1608194248 B00B9E8EE0 Amazon 721228e7-57d7-42eb-a869-b7b84bd99485 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1286809 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Min, Anchee. The Cooked Seed [Libby eBook] : A Memoir. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2927kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>In 1994, Anchee Min made her literary debut with a memoir of growing up in China during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. <i>Red Azalea</i> became an international 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.</p> <p>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.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/cooked-seed?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/cooked-seed?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/cooked-seed?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)