The Year She Left Us A Novel Ma Kathryn by Ma Kathryn 9780062273345, 0062273345 instant download after payment.

Three generations of Chinese-American women in a San Francisco family must confront their past & carve out a future in this extraordinary novel, a “haunting” debut full of “shimmering & unforgettable” characters. (New York Times Book Review)

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 to keep her daughter safe. Meanwhile, Charlie must endure the prickly scrutiny of her beautiful, Bryn Mawr educated mother, Gran—who, as the daughter of a cultured Chinese doctor, came to America to survive Mao's Revolution—& her sister, Les, a brilliant judge with a penchant to rule over everyone's lives.

Beautifully illuminating the bonds of family & blood, The Year She Left Us explores the promise & pain of  adoption, the price of assimilation & achievement, the debt we owe to others, & what we owe ourselves.  

Kathryn Ma is the author of the story collection All That Work and Still No Boys, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award. The book was named a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book & a Los Angeles Times Discoveries Book. She is also the recipient of the David Nathan Meyerson Prize for Fiction.