The Strength of Water: An Asian American Coming of Age Memoir Jensen Karin K.
Water is fluid, soft, yielding. But water will wear away rock...what is soft is strong. - Lao TzuIn 1920s Detroit, King Ying stands on a box to iron clothes in her parent's laundry business and…
Specifikacia The Strength of Water: An Asian American Coming of Age Memoir Jensen Karin K.
Water is fluid, soft, yielding. But water will wear away rock...what is soft is strong. - Lao TzuIn 1920s Detroit, King Ying stands on a box to iron clothes in her parent's laundry business and endures taunts of Ching-Ching Chinaman on the playground. She dreams of a home and the elegance of her Jane Arden paper dolls. But when her father incurs steep debts during the Great Depression, he sends her far from hope to live in his ancestral village.In remote Tai Ting Pong in the Guangdong province of China, King Ying feels as foreign in the land of her heritage as she did in the country of her birth. There, she must survive hunger, deadly superstition, and Japanese invasion. When a guardian angel helps her return to California, it's a chance to seize her American dream ... if she can overcome mid-20th century racism, those who prey on the economically