The Jade Peony Eldon Yellowhorn Those wanting to learn the

Those wanting to learn the history of the family will find the book most realistic

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Asian American studies and anthropology professor

BISAC Subject(s): BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs

embrace the unfamiliar

The Jade Peony Eldon Yellowhorn Those wanting to learn theDescription Chinatown, Vancouver, in the late 1930s and 1940s provides the setting for this poignant first novel, told through the vivid and intense reminiscences of the three younger children of an immigrant family. They each experience a very different childhood, depending on age and sex, as they encounter the complexities of birth and death, love and hate, kinship and otherness. Mingling with the realities of Canada and the horror of war are the