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Moon Cakes
Moon Cakes
Author: Andrea Louie
More than just a sweet Chinese pastry eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival, a moon cake is a morsel of tradition.... — The second daughter of successful Chinese parents, Maya Li grows up in Ohio, raised on equal measures of steamed rice and sliced white bread. Never a stellar student or an ambitious careerist, Maya seems content to stand in the r...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780345385543
ISBN-10: 0345385543
Publication Date: 5/23/1995
Pages: 332
Edition: 1st ed
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Publisher: One World/Ballantine
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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The second daughter of successful Chinese parents, Maya Li grows up in Ohio. Drawn to the country of her parents' youth, she embarks on a trip to China, a journey of the soul. This is a first novel about a young woman coming to terms with her personal and ancestral history and with the increasing complexities of what it means to be American.


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