Message From an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2015) when you're 16

when you're 16

Along the Bayou State's coast the most insidious challenges are man-made

reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness

the great detective Sherlock Holmes must solve a most unsettling royal murder

waiting for a triumphant re-emergence in a Renaissance vision of ancient beauty

Message From an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2015) when you're 16An extraordinarily powerful follow up to her bestselling The Good Women of China heartbreaking, shocking stories, including Xinran's own experience, of Chinese mothers who have lost or had to abandon their daughters and are still searching