Bibliograph

Kitchen Chinese, [Ann Mah]

Type

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Kitchen Chinese, [Ann Mah]

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Kitchen Chinese

Oclc number

317361802

Responsibility statement

[Ann Mah]

Summary

Isabelle Lee thinks she knows everything about Chinese cuisine. After all, during her Chinese-American childhood, she ate it every day. Isabelle may speak only "kitchen Chinese"--the familial chatter learned at her mother's knee--but she understands the language of food. Now, in the wake of a career-ending catastrophe, she's ready for a change--so she takes off for Beijing to stay with her older sister, Claire, whom she's never really known, and finds a job writing restaurant reviews for an expat magazine. In the midst of her extreme culture shock, and the more she comes to learn about her sister's own secrets, Isabelle can't help but wonder whether coming to China was a mistake . . . or an extraordinary chance to find out who she really is.

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