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An intensely rich and humorous book by "a real China toy" (Entertainment Weekly) Rachel DeWoskin is just a writer that has been praised for her "razor sharp explanations" (The Wall Street Journal), her "substantial social and linguistic assets" (The Brand New Yorker), and her unusual capability to provide a "real insider's look at life in contemporary China" (The Economist). Today DeWoskin, writer of the laughout-loud humorous and touching Foreign Babes in Beijing, returns with a brand new book about contemporary China and one American woman's battle to find himself there. Aysha is just a twenty-two-year-old New Yorker placing the bits of her life in position after her parents' divorce and her own nervous breakdown whenever a young Chinese student called Da Ge flips her world upside-down. In a love story that spans decades and continents, in the Tiananmen Square event to 9/11, Nyc's Upper West Side for the terraced hills of South China, Repeat After Me provides visitors an alternately humorous and uncomfortable glance of life and reduction between dialects.