The Year She Left Us

by Kathryn Ma

Book Overview

From the winner of the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize--comes the extraordinary, unexpected debut tale of three generations of Chinese-American women in a San Francisco family who must confront their past and carve out a future.

The Kong women are in crisis. A disastrous trip to visit her home orphanage in China has plunged eighteen-year-old Ari into a self-destructive spiral. Her adoptive mother, Charlie, a lawyer with a great heart, is desperate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062273345
• ISBN13: 9780062273345
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"