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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... never happen , both wrong . " Let's watch the movie , " I said . " It will give you a sense of teenage life here ... never ) , were buck- toothed emasculated minstrels , innocent exotic lilies , or dragon ladies . For this I had no ...
... never happen , both wrong . " Let's watch the movie , " I said . " It will give you a sense of teenage life here ... never ) , were buck- toothed emasculated minstrels , innocent exotic lilies , or dragon ladies . For this I had no ...
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... never remember her ending a pause before , and I was grateful . " We're both different from everyone else . " " He because he's Chinese , you mean ? But there are a bil- lion Chinese people in the world . How does that make him ...
... never remember her ending a pause before , and I was grateful . " We're both different from everyone else . " " He because he's Chinese , you mean ? But there are a bil- lion Chinese people in the world . How does that make him ...
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... never held her , never slipped off the leather crib slippers with " dad " tattoos on them , an unfortunate gift from my mother's daft second cousin . He never smelled her bald head , washed the scrumptious creases in her neck , or cut ...
... never held her , never slipped off the leather crib slippers with " dad " tattoos on them , an unfortunate gift from my mother's daft second cousin . He never smelled her bald head , washed the scrumptious creases in her neck , or cut ...
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Adam American anyway apartment asked Aysha baby Beijing Benj called Chen Da Chen's China Chinatown Chinese Chinglish chopsticks course Da Ge dinner door Embassy English eyes face father feel felt fingers fuck futon Ge's girl guess hair hallway hand Holderstein Hong Yue hoped Ingyum Ju Dou Julia Too's kind knew laughed Lili looked Lu Xun marriage married mean mother mouth moved movie Nai Nai Naomi neck never night nodded okay Old Chen Phoebe pregnant reminded Shannon shrugged Simatai sleep smiled someone Sophie sorry stared stay stood stopped talk Teacher Hao tell Thank thing thought tofu told Tom's Diner took Tritzen turned Vicky Vale voice waited walked wall Wang's watched window wondered words Xiao Wang Yang Tao Yeah York Zhang Sun Zhen Ming