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by William Poy Lee

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In the best-selling tradition of The Color of Water comes a beautifully written, evocative memoir of a relationship between a mother and son--and the Chinese-American experience

In The Eighth Promise, author William Poy Lee gives us a rare view of the Asian-American experience from a mother-son perspective. His moving and complex story of growing up in the housing projects of San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1960s and '70s unfolds in two voices--the author's own and that of his mother--to provide a sense of tradition and culture. It is a stunning tale of murder, injustice, fortitude, and survival. Already, this exquisitely wrought memoir is garnering rave notices.

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  • Title The Eighth Promise: An American Son's Tribute to His Toisanese Mother
  • Author William Poy Lee
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st/1st
  • Pages 315
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rodale Books, New York
  • Publication date February 6, 2007
  • ISBN 9781594864568 / 159486456X
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.48 x 6.34 x 1.16 in (21.54 x 16.10 x 2.95 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Mothers and sons, Chinese Americans
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006029369
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

WILLIAM POY LEE, formerly an architect and now a lawyer, lives in Berkeley, California. This is his first book.

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