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From the winner of the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prizecomes the extraordinary, unexpected debut tale of three generations of Chinese-American women in a San Francisco family who must confront their past and carve out a future. 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, Granwho, as the daughter of a cultured Chinese doctor, came to America to survive Mao's Revolutionand 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 livesfour 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 ourselv

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Author

Ma, Kathryn

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062273345

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Women'S Fiction

Rating

3.3 / 5 (902 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14