Adeline Yen Mah takes you back to the 1940’s and describes her life as the unwanted daughter on the book Chinese Cinderella. Adeline describes her life in great details, she never leaves one moment untouched. She brings tears to your eyes with deep, dark and beautiful words. The most admirable quality of this book is the raw emotion and qualities Yen Mah demonstrates.
Adeline Yen Mah started writing at a very young age. She was very fluent in english literature and writing. She would tell her friends stories and they would hang on her every word. She has been married two times, once in 1964 then again in 1972. She decided in 1997 that she would publish a book about her traumatic childhood. She stated “the book was difficult to write but …show more content…
Falling leaves was a New York Times Bestseller in 1997. She then went on to create a children's version of Falling Leaves which was labeled Chinese Cinderella. Chinese Cinderella has since won many awards for the incredible and compelling story it tells. Adeline starts with a vivid opening “As soon as I got home from school, Aunt Baba noticed the silver medal dangling from the left breast pocket of my uniform.” The book focused on just Adeline and not any of her family that made her feel unwanted. The family isn’t focused on at all and Adeline doesn't explain the background and what happened when she went to boarding schools. The book would be more engaging if she did change perspectives in the book and went from Niang to herself to maybe her bigger sister or bigger brothers. This is very hard though when she doesn’t know their perspectives but it would still be interesting to know more about the family itself. The book is interesting but boring in some parts. One chapter is almost all dedicated to Adelines grandfathers teaching of the chinese language. The teaching of the chinese language doesn't include itself into the plot or theme but makes the story go slower. Although the words itself being taught might include itself into the theme but they don't adhere to the story and aren't ever brought up again in the rest of the
Adeline Yen Mah started writing at a very young age. She was very fluent in english literature and writing. She would tell her friends stories and they would hang on her every word. She has been married two times, once in 1964 then again in 1972. She decided in 1997 that she would publish a book about her traumatic childhood. She stated “the book was difficult to write but …show more content…
Falling leaves was a New York Times Bestseller in 1997. She then went on to create a children's version of Falling Leaves which was labeled Chinese Cinderella. Chinese Cinderella has since won many awards for the incredible and compelling story it tells. Adeline starts with a vivid opening “As soon as I got home from school, Aunt Baba noticed the silver medal dangling from the left breast pocket of my uniform.” The book focused on just Adeline and not any of her family that made her feel unwanted. The family isn’t focused on at all and Adeline doesn't explain the background and what happened when she went to boarding schools. The book would be more engaging if she did change perspectives in the book and went from Niang to herself to maybe her bigger sister or bigger brothers. This is very hard though when she doesn’t know their perspectives but it would still be interesting to know more about the family itself. The book is interesting but boring in some parts. One chapter is almost all dedicated to Adelines grandfathers teaching of the chinese language. The teaching of the chinese language doesn't include itself into the plot or theme but makes the story go slower. Although the words itself being taught might include itself into the theme but they don't adhere to the story and aren't ever brought up again in the rest of the