Repeat After Me: A NovelRachel DeWoskin is a writer who has been lauded for her razor-sharp descriptions (The Wall Street Journal), her considerable cultural and linguistic resources (The New Yorker), and her rare ability to offer a real insider's look at life in modern China (The Economist). Now DeWoskin, author of the laughout-loud funny and poignant Foreign Babes in Beijing, returns with a new novel about modern China and one American girl's struggle to find herself there. Aysha is a twenty-two-year-old New Yorker putting the pieces of her life back in place after her parents' divorce and her own nervous breakdown when a young Chinese student named Da Ge flips her world upside-down. In a love story that spans decades and continents, from the Tiananmen Square incident to 9/11, New York City's Upper West Side to the terraced mountains of South China, Repeat After Me gives readers an alternately funny and painful glimpse of life and loss in between languages. |
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... Chinatown . I told you . ' وو " Do you ever hang out with Xiao Wang ? " He put his hands on my hips . " I don't have so many friends in New York , actually , " he said . “ Mostly , I am alone . ” His inflection didn't accuse me . He ...
... Chinatown . I told you . ' وو " Do you ever hang out with Xiao Wang ? " He put his hands on my hips . " I don't have so many friends in New York , actually , " he said . “ Mostly , I am alone . ” His inflection didn't accuse me . He ...
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... Chinatown , " he said . " If I wanted to see it alone , I would have come alone . " " Tonight , " Da Ge said , looking at me , “ you are pretty . ” That was the moment I almost told him . And then the waiter showed up with cubes of cut ...
... Chinatown , " he said . " If I wanted to see it alone , I would have come alone . " " Tonight , " Da Ge said , looking at me , “ you are pretty . ” That was the moment I almost told him . And then the waiter showed up with cubes of cut ...
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... Chinatown and sat at my table . Old Chen looked at me from the futon . I could think of nothing to say . " You are the wife of my son , Chen Da Xing , " he said again , this time without clearing his throat . I looked up . " Da Ge , " I ...
... Chinatown and sat at my table . Old Chen looked at me from the futon . I could think of nothing to say . " You are the wife of my son , Chen Da Xing , " he said again , this time without clearing his throat . I looked up . " Da Ge , " I ...
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