Description
After a devastating professional setback, Isabelle Lee leaves behind her familiar life in America and moves to Beijing to live with the older sister she barely knows. Writing restaurant reviews for an expatriate magazine, she encounters a city that challenges her assumptions about Chinese food, language, family, and belonging. As Isabelle navigates culture shock and the complicated truths surrounding her sister, her journey becomes an unexpected search for identity and connection. Blending culinary discovery with family drama and cross-cultural insight, this atmospheric novel explores what it means to find home in an unfamiliar place.
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paperback
Avon A
Published Jan 1, 2010
ISBN: 9780061771279
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First Published
2010
Language
eng
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