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Paper Wife

A Novel

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Paper Wife

Auteur(s): Laila Ibrahim
Narrateur(s): Nancy Wu
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From the bestselling author of Yellow Crocus comes a heart-wrenching story about finding strength in a new world.

Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling’s parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband’s first wife - a paper wife.

On the perilous voyage, Mei Ling takes an orphan girl named Siew under her wing. Dreams of a better life in America give Mei Ling the strength to endure the treacherous journey and detainment on Angel Island. But when she finally reaches San Francisco, she’s met with a surprise. Her husband, Chinn Kai Li, is a houseboy, not the successful merchant he led her to believe.

Mei Ling is penniless, pregnant, and bound to a man she doesn’t know. Her fragile marriage is tested further when she discovers that Siew will likely be forced into prostitution. Desperate to rescue Siew, she must convince her husband that an orphan’s life is worth fighting for. Can Mei Ling find a way to make a real family - even if it’s built on a paper foundation?

©2018 Laila Ibrahim. (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique Littérature mondiale Mariage Chine
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I appreciated finding out more about a paper wife and about the life of Chinese families in Oakland and San Francisco. I found it quite irritating to listen to the attempt to give a clear idea of what spoken English sounded like to an individual who spoke Mandarin.

Refreshing!

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The narrator didn't seem too great at first, however I found the story interesting and somehow everything fit together at some point. Loved hearing about this journey and the different people, customs, pieces and places that kept it moving along nicely. I would recommend this title.

Different in an interesting way

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Even though this was a book of fiction, what it was based on was eye opening to me. It is always good to learn

Discovering a story about the past I knew nothing about

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a story of a Chinese lady being bought to America Her Dragon temperament enabled her to do well during the journey and her life in the States. Her husband was wonderful kind and understanding of this lovely lady. good read

beautiful story

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I loved it! I've never gotten so into a audiobook before. this kept me on my feet for sure.

awesome!

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I learned a lot about the culture & absolutely loved the it!! A great story! 😊

Loved it!

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I liked this book very much. I learned a little about the difficulties in China in the early 1920s, the conditions under which the imigrants would travel by boat, the way all imigrants were treated upon their arrival at Angel Island. The terrible language barrier between English and Cantonese.
I don't think that the story in that book could have happened, but I suppose it is why I read novels! And I enjoyed this one.

The narrator was good, but the passages where she was supposed to speak English with an accent that confounds the main character were very distracting and disturbing.

Very good listening

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