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Face

by Aimee Liu, Daniel McNeill · 1994

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In her piercing and pignant fictional debut, Aimee Lee crosses continents and generations, from New York's Chinatown to pre-war Shaghai, to tell a tale of a young woman trapped between two worlds.

Setting
1990sAsiaChinaNew York
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 368 pages

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