The Exile: Portrait of an American Mother is Pearl S. Buck'sintensely moving memoir of her mother, Caroline (Carrie) Stulting Sydenstricker, whoset off to China as the bride of a zealous Presbyterian missionary in 1880. She would spend the rest of her life there, enduring...
This is the biography of an American woman in China. It is the life story of Pearl Buck?s mother. Everything in it is true except the names of the people are changed. Much of it the author learned from her mother?s lips and diaries; the rest from her own observation. Caroline...