{"product_id":"the-cooked-seed-a-memoir-anchee-min","title":"The Cooked Seed: A Memoir;  Anchee Min","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eIn 1994, Anchee Min made her literary debut with a memoir of growing up in China during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. \u003ci\u003eRed Azalea\u003c\/i\u003e became an international bestseller and propelled her career as a successful, critically acclaimed author. Twenty years later, Min returns to the story of her own life to give us the next chapter, an\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eimmigrant story that takes her from the shocking deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the promised land of America, without language, money, or a clear path.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a hard and lonely road. She teaches herself English by watching Sesame Street, keeps herself afloat working five jobs at once, lives in unheated rooms, suffers rape, collapses from exhaustion, marries poorly and divorces.But she also gives birth to her daughter, Lauryann, who will inspire her and finally root her in her new country. Min's eventual successes-her writing career, a daughter at Stanford, a second husband she loves-are remarkable, but it is her struggle throughout toward genuine selfhood that elevates this dramatic, classic immigrant story to something powerfully universal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMay 1, 2013\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAnchee Min\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen she was sent to a labor collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao's Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress. She moved to the United States in 1984. Her first memoir, \u003ci\u003eRed Azalea\u003c\/i\u003e, was an international bestseller, published in twenty countries. She has since published six novels, including \u003ci\u003ePearl of China\u003c\/i\u003e and the forthcoming memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Cooked Seed\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, May 7 2013).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44885105541442,"sku":"","price":7.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/products\/cookseed.jpg?v=1680537289","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/the-cooked-seed-a-memoir-anchee-min","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}