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"Trying to put her life back together after her parents' divorce and her own nervous breakdown, twenty-two-year old ESL teacher Aysha finds herself intrigued by surly and secretive student Da Ge, an attraction that will change her life forever."@en
"Trying to put her life back together after her parents' divorce and her own nervous breakdown, twenty-two-year old ESL teacher Aysha finds herself intrigued by surly and secretive student Da Ge, an attraction that will change her life forever."
"Aysha Silvermintz is a marginally neurotic, sublimely needy young instructor of English to immigrants in Manhattan?s Upper West Side. Her student Da Ge is an intriguingly taciturn, softly menacing Chinese national who came to the U.S. in the wake of the Tiananmen Square uprisings. What they lack in fluid communication skills they more than make up for in shared emotional fragility, born of family tragedies and personal failures. Aysha falls instantly and secretly in love with Da Ge, long before he bluntly asks her to marry him so he can become a U.S. citizen. Aysha becomes pregnant, but before she can tell him, Da Ge commits suicide just days before his citizenship is finalized. Determined to understand what plagued this tortured, enigmatic man, Aysha moves to China, where she?ll raise the daughter he never knew.--From Booklist."@en