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Daughter of Heaven : A Memoir with Earthly Recipes by Li, Leslie is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Daughter of Heaven : A Memoir with Earthly Recipes about?
In this powerful, touching memoir of a critically acclaimed Chinese-American writer, taste becomes the keeper of memory and food the keeper of culture when Nai-nai, her extraordinary grandmother, arrives from mainland China. Leslie Li’s paternal grandfather, Li Zogren, was China’s first democratically elected vice president, to whom Chiang Kai-shek left control of the country when he fled to Formosa in 1949. Nine years later, Li’s wife, Nai-nai, comes to live with her son’s family in New York Ci
Who reads Daughter of Heaven : A Memoir with Earthly Recipes?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Li, Leslie
- Publisher
- Arcade Publishing
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781611456950
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Cooking, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.19 / 5 (81 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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