Daughter of the Bamboo Forest by Sheng-Shih Lin. Historical fiction. Loosely based on her mother's childhood. Decent reviews and may interest those interested in Chinese culture.
http://www.amazon.com/Daughter-Bambo...7806860&sr=1-1
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Alone in the bamboo forest, seven-year-old Little Jade, still dressed in red silk after her father's recent wedding, wonders whether she will ever meet her real mother. DAUGHTER OF THE BAMBOO FOREST is a story set in war-torn, post-revolutionary China during the 1940s. From age seven to twelve, Little Jade longs for the attention of an opium-addicted father and clashes with a desperate, resentful stepmother. The young girl is inadvertently swept by the tides of history, encountering a plague that decimated a village, Catholic nuns in a convent school, and the fabled dragon king along the way.
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