Paperback. Glamour UK Best New Books of June 2023 PickGold Book Award Winner - Nonfiction Authors AssociationBook AwardsOnce Our Lives is the true story of four generations of Chinese women and how their lives were threatened by powerful and cruel ancient traditions, historic upheavals, and a man whose fate cursed by an ancient superstition dramatically altered their destinies. The book takes the reader on an exotic journey filled with luxurious banquets, lost jewels, babies sold in opium dens, kidnappings by pirates, and a desperate flight from death in the desert seen through the eyes of a man for whom the truth would spell disaster and a lonely, beautiful girl with three identities. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Once Our Lives (Paperback)
Publisher: Guernica Editions,Canada, Toronto
Publication Date: 2023
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1771837969
ISBN 13: 9781771837965
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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MS. MAGAZINE's choice for "Reads for the Rest of Us"
GLAMOUR UK Best New Books for June
2023 Gold Winner - Nonfiction Book Awards
2023 First Place Winner - Chanticleer International Book Awards' (CIBAs)
Nellie Bly Awards for Journalistic Nonfiction
2023 Readers' Favorite Book Awards
2023 PenCraft Book Awards #1 winner for literary excellence in culture/history
2023 Best Book Awards winner in cross-genre nonfiction

Once Our Lives is the amazing true story of four generations of Chinese women who bravely struggle to survive war, revolution and a mysterious ancient superstition that dramatically alters their destinies. The book takes the reader on an exotic journey filled with luxurious banquets, lost jewels, babies sold in opium dens, kidnappings by pirates, and a desperate flight from death in the desert - seen through the eyes of a man for whom the truth would spell disaster and a lonely, beautiful girl with three identities.

About the Author

Qin Sun Stubis, author of the historical memoir, Once Our Lives, is a Chinese-American writer in the Washington, D.C. area. She is a longtime newspaper columnist and writes poems, essays, short stories and original Chinese tall tales inspired by traditional Asian themes.

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