![]() ![]() With Niang’s two additional children, Yen Mah is now one of six and thus, considered bad luck in her culture at large as her mother passed shortly after birthing her.īeing a girl and the youngest of her original family subjects her to emotional – and at times, physical – abuse from her biological and step-family. While Yen Mah’s father has four children with his first wife – unlike the original tale in which Cinderella is an only child – he then marries Niang, the featured antagonist of the novel, following his first wife’s death. Running parallel to its namesake, the story is centered around Yen Mah’s family journey, evil stepmother and all. However, “Chinese Cinderella” proved me wrong through Yen Mah’s expert hand, I was pulled into an entire culture I was unaware of upon opening the book. Until then, I had viewed all autobiographies as incredibly dull, filled with facts, dates and events that I had no interest in learning about. ![]() “Chinese Cinderella” by Adeline Yen Mah was one of the first autobiographies I enjoyed reading. ![]()
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