Golden Inches: The China Memoir of Grace Service

by Grace Service

Book Overview

"(An) engrossing memoir .... To turn everything recorded here--births, an infant death, family uprootings, civil turmoil, maintaining an American household in the interior of China--into gold requires an alchemy that only a beautiful, strong-minded, witty and loving wife and mother can hold the secret to." --John Espey, Washington Post Book World "A wonderful, sad, moving memoir by an indomitable American . . . Golden Inches not only gives many fascinating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520074165
• ISBN13: 9780520074163
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"