Santorini felt like an island holding its breath. After discovering it was the first in a series of standalones, I blew through LOVE AND LUCK and proceeded to. Then eventually I started LOVE AND GELATO by Jenna Evans Welch and was blown away by the setting, characters, romance, and genuine sincerity nestled in its pages. The light, fluffy, funny stories that I usually never read but decided to try one day, at a time when I needed something like it.įirst I read TOKYO EVER AFTER by Emiko Jean and laughed my head off.

They have two children and live in California and London.About a month ago, I started getting into contemporary books.

Her third book Watching the Tree is a book of Chinese philosophy. Chinese Cinderella is her autobiography written for children. After the publication of Falling Leaves, which sold over one million copies world-wide, Adeline gave up medicine to write full-time. Falling Leaves relates the dramatic events following the death of Adeline's stepmother two years later. After the death of her millionaire father, Adeline's stepmother prevented all the children from reading his will. She attended medical school, graduated as a physician and established a thriving medical practice in California. At fourteen, she won a writing competition which convinced her father to send her to study in England. Falling Leaves recounts the story of Adeline's life. Adeline's father, stepmother and their two children were the upper class, whereas Adeline and the four other step-children by the first wife were considered second class. She was half French and half Chinese and divided the Yen family into two different classes. Her father remarried a beautiful Eurasian woman one year later. Her mother died two weeks after her birth and Adeline was considered to be a source of bad luck by her family. A compelling, painful, and ultimately triumphant story of a girl's journey into adulthood, Adeline's story is a testament to the most basic of human needs: acceptance, love, and understanding.Īdeline Yen Mah was born in Tianjin, China. Falling Leaves recounts the story of the author’s life in China and the tragedies that had overshadowed her life.

South Coast Repertory will present a staged reading of Chinese American author Adeline Yen Mah’s best-selling book entitled Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter on the Julianne Argyros Stage.

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