New York: Harper Collins, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The first novel by this writer who has won awards for her short stories, a tale of "three generations of Chinese-American women in a San Francisco family who must confront their past and carve out a future".. . A book which illuminates "the bonds of family and blood, explores the promise and pain of adoption, the price of assimilation and achievement, the debt we owe to others, and what we owe ourselves." SIGNED and dated on the title page. Author's note. 323 pp. Promotional postcard laid in.