Ann Mah
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In September 1949 Jacqueline Bouvier arrives in postwar Paris to begin her junior year abroad. She's twenty years old, socially poised but financially precarious, and all too aware of her mother's expectations that she make a brilliant match. Before relenting to family pressure, she has one year to herself far away from sleepy Vassar College and the rigid social circles of New York, a year to explore and absorb the luminous beauty of the City of Light....
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"Sweetbitter meets The Nightingale in this page-turner about a woman who returns to her family's ancestral vineyard in Burgundy to study for her Master of Wine test, and uncovers a lost diary, a forgotten relative, and a secret her family has been keeping since WWII"--
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"Ann Mah's Kitchen Chinese is a delicious debut novel, seasoned with just the right balance of humor and heart, and sprinkled with fascinating cultural tidbits."
-Claire Cook, bestselling author of Must Love Dogs
Kitchen Chinese, Ann Mah's funny and poignant first novel about a young Chinese-American woman who travels to Beijing to discover food, family, and herself is a delight-complete with mouth-watering descriptions of Asian culinary delicacies,...
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Kate, una joven estadounidense que estudia para lograr el dificilísimo título de Master of Wine decide viajar a la Borgoña, a los viñedos que han pertenecido a su familia durante generaciones y pasar una temporada en Francia, como en los veranos de su infancia. Allí, detrás de un gran armario, descubre una habitación oculta que contiene algunos folletos de la Resistencia, valiosos vinos y la pista de un misterioso pariente del que nunca tuvo...