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    The Cooked Seed: A Memoir
    The Cooked Seed: A Memoir
    The Cooked Seed: A Memoir
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    The Cooked Seed: A Memoir

    Written by Anchee Min

    Narrated by Angela Lin

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    In 1994, Anchee Min made her literary debut with a memoir of growing up in China during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. Red Azalea became an international bestseller and propelled her career as a successful, critically acclaimed author. Twenty years later, Min returns to the story of her own life to give us the next chapter, an immigrant story that takes her from the shocking deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the promised land of America, without language, money, or a clear path. It is a hard and lonely road. She teaches herself English by watching Sesame Street, keeps herself afloat working five jobs at once, lives in unheated rooms, suffers rape, collapses from exhaustion, marries poorly and divorces.But she also gives birth to her daughter, Lauryann, who will inspire her and finally root her in her new country. Min's eventual successes-her writing career, a daughter at Stanford, a second husband she loves-are remarkable, but it is her struggle throughout toward genuine selfhood that elevates this dramatic, classic immigrant story to something powerfully universal.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 7, 2013
    ISBN9781470336967
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    Anchee Min

    Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen she was sent to a labor collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao's Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress. She moved to the United States in 1984. Her first memoir, Red Azalea, was an international bestseller, published in twenty countries. She has since published six novels, including the Richard & Judy choice Empress Orchid and, most recently, Pearl of China.

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    • 4/5
      This is the first of Anchee Min's work that I have read. It is an inspiring and fascinating portrait of her as a young immigrant from China. Based on this work, I will put her prior work on my to-read list and pay attention to future works. A determined talent.
    • 4/5
      This book and Anchee Min embodies the meaning of human perseverance and determination. She is only 55 but has already lived so many different lives. The resilience she had to have had to survive the cultural revolution China and the fortitude to find a way to live and come to the United States where she did not know the language nor did she have someone waiting for her. That she became a successful author is amazing. This book is straightforward, not emotional, just matter of fact. This is what she did, what happened and how she overcame adversity to become what she is today. I found it all absolutely amazing.