Ebook: Daughter of heaven: a memoir with earthly recipes

The powerful yet touching memoir of a Chinese-American woman and her grandmother by an extraordinarily talented author who has been compared to Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston. Leslie Li belongs to the illustrious Li family of Guilin, China. Her paternal grandfather, Li Zongren, was China's first elected vice president, to whom Chiang Kai-shek left control of the country when he fled to Formosa. Leslie's father was studying in the US when he met and married her American-born mother.;Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Recipes; Preface: Sucking on a Stone; Acknowledgments; 1 A Walk in Nai-Nai's Garden; 2 Food Shame and Sand-Wishes; 3 Chinese New Year; 4 Three Short Fish Tales (and One Shrimp Cocktale); 5 Against the Grain; 6 The Sound of One Stone Failing; 7 Bitter Rice, Sweet Rice; 8 In the Forest of Osmanthus Trees; 9 Dashao; 10 Moon Cakes, Jade Rabbits, and Elixirs of Immortality; 11 Seated on a Stone; 12 Seated on a Stone; 13 Clear Brightness and Hungry Ghosts; 14 The Village with No Name; 15 Centenary; Afterword: If Stones Could Speak.