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A captivating memoir of a woman's painful coming-of-age in an affluent Chinese family throughout the 1940s.A Chinese adage says, "Falling leaves go back to their roots." In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to inform the story of her painful childhood and her final bravery and success in the facial skin of despair. After her mother dies having a baby to her Her bad luck is considered by Adeline 's affluent, powerful family. Life doesn't get any simpler when her father remarries. While her stepsister and stepbrother are ruined, she and her siblings are put through the contempt of her step-mother.