Paper Wife
A Novel
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wish list failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Get 3 months for $0.99 a month + $20 Audible credit
Buy Now for $26.00
-
Narrated by:
-
Nancy Wu
-
Written by:
-
Laila Ibrahim
About this listen
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.You may also enjoy...
-
North to Paradise
- A Memoir
- Written by: Ousman Umar, Kevin Gerry Dunn - translator
- Narrated by: Kwesi Busia
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall8
-
Performance7
-
Story7
The inspiring true story of one man’s treacherous boyhood journey from a rural village in Ghana to the streets of Barcelona - and the path that led him home.
-
-
Respect
- By ROS M on 2024-09-01
Written by: Ousman Umar, and others
-
One Summer in Savannah
- A Novel
- Written by: Terah Shelton Harris
- Narrated by: Zuzu Robinson
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall9
-
Performance9
-
Story9
A compelling debut that glows with bittersweet heart and touching emotion, deeply interrogating questions of family, redemption, and unconditional love in the sweltering summer heat of Savannah, as two people discover what it means to truly forgive.
-
-
amazing story
- By Souricette Sarah on 2024-05-28
Written by: Terah Shelton Harris
-
The Murder at the Vicarage & The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- Written by: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Richard E. Grant, Hugh Fraser
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall42
-
Performance37
-
Story37
TWO BESTSELLING MYSTERIES IN ONE GREAT PACKAGE! THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE The Murder at the Vicarage is Agatha Christie’s first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marple—as a dead body in a clergyman’s study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no place, holy or...
-
-
Really hard to listen to
- By Xaly on 2017-11-25
Written by: Agatha Christie
-
One Puzzling Afternoon
- Written by: Emily Critchley
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall29
-
Performance24
-
Story24
It is 1951, and at number six Sycamore Street, fifteen-year-old Edie Green is lonely. Living with her eccentric mother and her mother's new boyfriend, she is desperate for something to shake her from her dull, isolated life. So when the popular, pretty Lucy Theddle befriends Edie, she thinks all her troubles are over. Even though Lucy has a secret, one Edie is not certain she should keep. Then Lucy goes missing. Now in 2018, Edie is eighty-four and still living in the same small town, when one afternoon she glimpses Lucy Theddle, still looking the same as she did at fifteen.
-
-
Nice easy listen
- By Kelly D on 2025-01-24
Written by: Emily Critchley
-
The Chocolate Maker's Wife
- Written by: Karen Brooks
- Narrated by: Willow Nash
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall10
-
Performance9
-
Story9
Born into poverty, brutalised and ignored by her family, it is only when she is married off to a nobleman that her life undergoes a transformation, as her husband recognises in Rosamund a magic she does not know she possesses but which affects almost all who encounter her. Presiding over a luxurious chocolate house where men go to be seen, exchange news and indulge in the sweet and heady drink to which they have become addicted, Rosamund feels blessed. But disaster strikes, and Rosamund stands on the brink of losing all she has worked so hard to achieve.
-
-
Lots of intricate stories inside stories
- By loralou on 2024-02-26
Written by: Karen Brooks
-
All the Little Raindrops
- A Novel
- Written by: Mia Sheridan
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky, Aaron Shedlock, Christopher Lane, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall36
-
Performance31
-
Story31
It’s senior-year spring break, and Noelle Meyer and Evan Sinclair have been kidnapped. Neither knows why they were chosen, only that they share a tragic past: Evan’s father got away with killing Noelle’s mother, effectively ruining her family when the death was ruled an accident. Despite the connection that should have made them enemies, the teens instead unite to face their other common denominator—their abductors. Noelle and Evan survive one sadistic circumstance after another, eventually making a harrowing escape. But every happy ending comes at a price…
-
-
Poorly written, ridiculous "love story" with terrible dialogs and just offensive to the plight of SA survivors
- By TRey on 2024-03-20
Written by: Mia Sheridan
-
North to Paradise
- A Memoir
- Written by: Ousman Umar, Kevin Gerry Dunn - translator
- Narrated by: Kwesi Busia
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall8
-
Performance7
-
Story7
The inspiring true story of one man’s treacherous boyhood journey from a rural village in Ghana to the streets of Barcelona - and the path that led him home.
-
-
Respect
- By ROS M on 2024-09-01
Written by: Ousman Umar, and others
-
One Summer in Savannah
- A Novel
- Written by: Terah Shelton Harris
- Narrated by: Zuzu Robinson
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall9
-
Performance9
-
Story9
A compelling debut that glows with bittersweet heart and touching emotion, deeply interrogating questions of family, redemption, and unconditional love in the sweltering summer heat of Savannah, as two people discover what it means to truly forgive.
-
-
amazing story
- By Souricette Sarah on 2024-05-28
Written by: Terah Shelton Harris
-
The Murder at the Vicarage & The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- Written by: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Richard E. Grant, Hugh Fraser
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall42
-
Performance37
-
Story37
TWO BESTSELLING MYSTERIES IN ONE GREAT PACKAGE! THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE The Murder at the Vicarage is Agatha Christie’s first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marple—as a dead body in a clergyman’s study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no place, holy or...
-
-
Really hard to listen to
- By Xaly on 2017-11-25
Written by: Agatha Christie
-
One Puzzling Afternoon
- Written by: Emily Critchley
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall29
-
Performance24
-
Story24
It is 1951, and at number six Sycamore Street, fifteen-year-old Edie Green is lonely. Living with her eccentric mother and her mother's new boyfriend, she is desperate for something to shake her from her dull, isolated life. So when the popular, pretty Lucy Theddle befriends Edie, she thinks all her troubles are over. Even though Lucy has a secret, one Edie is not certain she should keep. Then Lucy goes missing. Now in 2018, Edie is eighty-four and still living in the same small town, when one afternoon she glimpses Lucy Theddle, still looking the same as she did at fifteen.
-
-
Nice easy listen
- By Kelly D on 2025-01-24
Written by: Emily Critchley
-
The Chocolate Maker's Wife
- Written by: Karen Brooks
- Narrated by: Willow Nash
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall10
-
Performance9
-
Story9
Born into poverty, brutalised and ignored by her family, it is only when she is married off to a nobleman that her life undergoes a transformation, as her husband recognises in Rosamund a magic she does not know she possesses but which affects almost all who encounter her. Presiding over a luxurious chocolate house where men go to be seen, exchange news and indulge in the sweet and heady drink to which they have become addicted, Rosamund feels blessed. But disaster strikes, and Rosamund stands on the brink of losing all she has worked so hard to achieve.
-
-
Lots of intricate stories inside stories
- By loralou on 2024-02-26
Written by: Karen Brooks
-
All the Little Raindrops
- A Novel
- Written by: Mia Sheridan
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky, Aaron Shedlock, Christopher Lane, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall36
-
Performance31
-
Story31
It’s senior-year spring break, and Noelle Meyer and Evan Sinclair have been kidnapped. Neither knows why they were chosen, only that they share a tragic past: Evan’s father got away with killing Noelle’s mother, effectively ruining her family when the death was ruled an accident. Despite the connection that should have made them enemies, the teens instead unite to face their other common denominator—their abductors. Noelle and Evan survive one sadistic circumstance after another, eventually making a harrowing escape. But every happy ending comes at a price…
-
-
Poorly written, ridiculous "love story" with terrible dialogs and just offensive to the plight of SA survivors
- By TRey on 2024-03-20
Written by: Mia Sheridan
-
Counterfeit
- A Novel
- Written by: Kirstin Chen
- Narrated by: Catherine Ho
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall146
-
Performance132
-
Story130
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “A con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp . . . Counterfeit is an entertaining, luxurious read—but beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the American dream and the myth of the...
-
-
Disappointing and Anticlimactic
- By Anonymous on 2022-06-15
Written by: Kirstin Chen
-
When We Were Enemies
- A Novel
- Written by: Emily Bleeker
- Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan, Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall10
-
Performance8
-
Story8
Camera-shy Elise Branson is different from the other women in her maternal line. Her mother is an award-winning actress. Her late grandmother, Vivian Snow, is a beloved Hollywood icon. But when Elise’s upcoming wedding coincides with a documentary being made about Vivian, Elise can’t escape the camera’s gaze. And neither can her grandmother, even in death.
-
-
Parallels and going against what is expected
- By CAMG on 2024-05-17
Written by: Emily Bleeker
-
The Art of Racing in the Rain
- Written by: Garth Stein
- Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall388
-
Performance320
-
Story322
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM FOX 2000 STARRING MILO VENTIMIGLIA, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AND KEVIN COSTNER MEET THE DOG WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD HOW TO BE HUMAN The New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein—a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love...
-
-
fantastic story!
- By C on 2019-08-16
Written by: Garth Stein
-
The Woman in the White Kimono
- Written by: Ana Johns
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall130
-
Performance117
-
Story116
Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them. Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage to the son of her father’s business associate would secure her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko...
-
-
Beautiful writing style.
- By guineverebradshaw on 2020-02-20
Written by: Ana Johns
-
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
- Written by: Theodora Goss
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall85
-
Performance68
-
Story68
Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents' deaths, is curious about the secrets of her father's mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father's former friend and a murderer, may be nearby, and there is a reward for information leading to his capture...a reward that would solve all of her immediate financial woes. But her hunt leads her to Hyde's daughter, Diana, a feral child left to be raised by nuns.
-
-
ok
- By Genevieve Paquette on 2021-02-24
Written by: Theodora Goss
-
Sparks Like Stars
- A Novel
- Written by: Nadia Hashimi
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marno
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall57
-
Performance48
-
Story48
“Suspenseful…emotionally compelling. I found myself eagerly following in a way I hadn’t remembered for a long time, impatient for the next twist and turn of the story.""—NPR An Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their...
-
-
Beautiful writing, incredible story
- By snowpatch100 on 2021-04-23
Written by: Nadia Hashimi
-
Time's Mouth
- Written by: Edan Lepucki
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall3
-
Performance3
-
Story3
Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950s California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. Yet Ursa’s powers come with a cost. Soon this cultish community of sisterhood takes an ominous turn, prompting her son, Ray, and his pregnant lover, Cherry, to flee their home for Los Angeles and reinvent themselves far from Ursa’s insidious influence.
-
-
Good story
- By Joanne on 2024-03-20
Written by: Edan Lepucki
-
The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West
- Written by: Sara Ackerman
- Narrated by: Jennifer Robideau
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
An exciting page-turner about a fearless female aviator competing in a death-defying race across the Pacific. Brilliantly told… My favorite read this year!” —Andie Newton, USA TODAY bestselling author of A Child for the Reich This extraordinary novel, inspired by real events, tells the...
Written by: Sara Ackerman
-
These Still Black Waters
- Jess Lambert, Book 1
- Written by: Christina McDonald
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe, Erin Bennett, Ellen Quay
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall10
-
Performance7
-
Story7
After a violent home invasion, Neve Maguire returns with her daughter to Black Lake, her childhood summer home, hoping for a fresh start. But when the body of a woman is found floating among the reeds in the lake behind her house, she fears she has made a horrible mistake. Neve is hiding secrets, though. Detective Jess Lambert can tell. Recently back after her own personal tragedy, Jess knows what it’s like to live with skeletons in your closet, and she’s sure Neve has a few of her own.
-
-
Draggs....
- By Michelle on 2024-07-15
Written by: Christina McDonald
-
The House of Doors
- Written by: Tan Twan Eng
- Narrated by: David Oakes, Louise-Mai Newberry
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall18
-
Performance16
-
Story16
The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When “Willie” Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert’s, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his unhappy and expensive marriage of convenience becomes unbearable after he loses his savings—and the freedom to travel with Gerald.
-
-
Beautiful Prose
- By clevrgrl on 2025-01-18
Written by: Tan Twan Eng
-
Sunset Beach
- Written by: Mary Kay Andrews
- Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall14
-
Performance12
-
Story12
Drue Campbell’s life is adrift. Out of a job and down on her luck, life doesn’t seem to be getting any better when her estranged father, Brice Campbell, a flamboyant personal injury attorney, shows up at her mother’s funeral after a 20-year absence. Worse, he’s remarried - to Drue’s eighth-grade frenemy, Wendy, now his office manager. And they’re offering her a job. It seems like the job from hell, but the offer is sweetened by the news of her inheritance - her grandparents’ beach bungalow in the sleepy town of Sunset Beach.
Written by: Mary Kay Andrews
-
The Girl from the Channel Islands
- Written by: Jenny Lecoat
- Narrated by: Deryn Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall30
-
Performance25
-
Story25
The New York Times and Globe and Mail bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz! “Unforgettable” —Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author Inspired by true events, the riveting story of a young Jewish woman trapped on the occupied island of...
-
-
We Need This Story of Light in The Darkness
- By Steven Freygood on 2023-10-23
Written by: Jenny Lecoat
Refreshing!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Different in an interesting way
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Discovering a story about the past I knew nothing about
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
beautiful story
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
awesome!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Loved it!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
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
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.