Chinese Cinderella, by Adeline Yen Mah

[keilexandra]

Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
by Adeline Yen Mah
205 pages (hardcover)
Genre: Nonfiction/Memoir

I never really understood the difference between memoir and autobiography. Dramatization? This slim book reads like YA memoir, but Mah previously wrote the NYT-bestselling autobiography Falling Leaves. According to my friend,

Comments

[springgreen]

Oh, thanks for the write up! I've seen the book several times but I've never quite decided whether I should pick it up or not.

[keilexandra]

Oooh, are you going to? I hope you do.

[springgreen]

I think I will... I usually avoid picking up literary books by hyphenated Chinese because it feels a bit "been there, done that" to me, but I will check this out.