Toronto: Random House Canada, 2010. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo. 295 pp. Signed by Judy Fong Bates on the title page. Blue boards lettered in copper on the spine; headband; illustrated with a map and black and white photographs. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; initialled by a previous owner on the front free endpaper. Growing up in her father's hand laundry in small town Ontario, Judy Fong Bates listened to stories of her parents' past lives in China, a place far removed from their every-day life of poverty and misery. But in spite of the allure of these stories, Fong Bates longed to be a Canadian girl. Fifty years later she finally followed her curiosity back to her ancestral home in China for a reunion that spiralled into a series of unanticipated discoveries....

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JUDY FONG BATES is the author of the critically acclaimed short-story collection China Dog and other Tales from a Chinese Laundry , and the novel Midnight at the Dragon Café , which was the 2007 Everybody Reads selection of Portland, Oregon, and an American Library Association Notable Book for 2006. She lives with her husband on a farm outside of Toronto. From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: W. Fraser Sandercombe (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 224345
Title: THE YEAR OF FINDING MEMORY
Author: Bates, Judy Fong
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0307356523
ISBN 13: 9780307356529
Publisher: Random House Canada
Place of Publication: Toronto
Date Published: 2010
Size: 8vo
Keywords: china; chinese; canada; canadiana;
Bookseller catalogs: Autobiography and Biography;

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