Miss Chopsticks
Translated by Esther Tyldesley
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Three sisters from a rural Chinese village leave home to seek their fortune in the city — part of the vast migration of young women from the countryside that has reshaped modern China. Each finds a different world: factory floors, restaurants, beauty salons. Each confronts the gap between the life they imagined and the life that's available. None of them goes back unchanged. Xinran, author of The Good Women of China, tells their story with warmth, humor, and an insider's understanding of the social forces that propel millions of Chinese women into uncertain futures. The sisters are distinct individuals, not symbols, and their struggles are rendered with the specificity that transforms sociology into compelling narrative. An uplifting novel about the courage of young women reinventing themselves — and a portrait of the human face of China's greatest social transformation.
