Mr. Ding's Chicken Feet: On a Slow Boat From Shanghai to Texas
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (796 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0299219445 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Oct. The fun, however, is in the stories of the daily navigation of tight quarters, cultural collisions and storms—and the cigarettes, sweets and chicken feet that get them all through the long days and nights of sea and sky. . 3)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly There's a lot of potential in the story of a young American woman hired onto a Chinese vessel to teach the sailors English as they cross the Pacific, and Kendall, a freelance writer who lives in Australia, hits it from time to time in this swift and eve
Kendall invites readers to travel with her across cultural divides as deep and mysterious as the Pacific while she explores her own culture, orientation, and heart.. The cosmopolitan graduate student suddenly has to adjust to an alien world, thick with cigarette smoke, unusual sea creatures, and male sexuality. She is the only female aboard, surrounded by Chinese men. After accepting a job teaching English on a small engineering vessel traveling from Shanghai to Texas, Gillian Kendall embarks on a strange journey with no ports of call but exotic emotional landscapes
totally engaging Blue Delfinian I am late in writing my review of Gillian's book. Recently I had occasion to give it as a gift to 2 of my friends contemplating a journey. True they had nothing like this in mind, but the whole concept of her endeavor was so appealing i couldn't help but pass it on to other traveling friends.The writing is alive and you are right their on the boat on choppy seas and with poor clueless tutees and of course Mr. Ding. The tile is charming and and the story is everything . "I felt like I was on the boat with Gillian!" according to Paula Czech. I highly recommend this fast paced exciting read. A substantive story full of twists and turns with insight into the Chinese culture and life on a boat as the only woman. Laugh out loud moments with sensitive emotional highs and lows. Educational, poignant, and an enjoyable journey. Could not put it down.