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Kitchen Chinese: A Novel About Food, Family and Finding Yourself
Coming soon from Avon/Harper Collins, February 2010

Reviews and Advance Praise for Kitchen Chinese

“After her magazine career craters, Isabelle Lee, the narrator of Mah’s super sharp debut, leaves New York to reconnect with her family roots in China. Her familiarity with the language and culture limited to “kitchen Chinese,” Isabelle lands a job at a magazine for the expatriate community in Beijing and finds a circle of friends. However, her relationship with her big-shot attorney sister, Claire, who’s lived in China for a while, gets off to a rocky start, with the two not knowing quite what to make of each other. Isabelle’s Beijing immersion, couple with her chick lit arc, provides a refreshing and fun narrative, helped along by a fantastic heroine whose insights into modern China and the expatriate experience will intrigue readers. It’s a great start for a writer with much promise.” –Publishers Weekly

“The vibrant depiction of Beijing, lush descriptions of sumptuous Chinese meals, and Isabelle’s struggle with how others perceive her distinguish Mah’s first novel.” –Booklist

“Splendid… warm and humorous.” –Romantic Times

“Ann Mah’s sizzling portrait of life in Beijing serves up more than just scrumptious banquets, identity crises and fraught, intercultural romances. It’s a story of how people find and nourish ourselves in unexpected ways and places, so delicious that I took breaks from reading only to dash to the phone and order Chinese.”
–Rachel DeWoskin, author of Foreign Babes in Beijing

“A delicious debut novel seasoned with just the right balance of humor and heart and sprinkled with fascinating cultural tidbits. Read thoroughly. Share with friends.”
–Claire Cook, bestselling author of Must Love Dogs

“Ann Mah’s richly detailed Kitchen Chinese is humorous enough to make you laugh out loud, and so delicious you are sure to begin craving Peking duck and dim sum. A true tale of reinventing oneself in a new and foreign world.”
–Patricia Wells, author of Vegetable Harvest and We’ll Always Have Paris… And Provence 

“Suffused with humor, genuine warmth, and mouth-watering culinary descriptions, Kitchen Chinese is, first and foremost, about the adventure of self-discovery.”
–Irina Reyn, author of What Happened to Anna K.

“With a light, self-deprecating touch, Ann Mah portrays the quirks, pleasures and surprises of life as a young Chinese-American woman finding her way in an alien motherland.”
–Jen Lin-Liu, author of Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey through China

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