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Author Ibrahim, Laila, author.

Title Paper wife / Laila Ibrahim.

Publication Info. Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, [2018]
©2018

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  F IBRAHIM, L.    Storage
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FIC IBRA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Adult Fiction  F IBRAHIM LAILA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Faxon Branch - Paperback Book  F IBRAHIM LAILA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F IBRAHIM LAILA    Check Shelf
Description 273 pages ; 21 cm
Note "A novel"--Cover.
Includes book discussion questions.
Summary From the bestselling author of Yellow Crocus comes a heart-wrenching story about finding strength in a new world. Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling's parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband's first wife--a paper wife. On the perilous voyage, Mei Ling takes an orphan girl named Siew under her wing. Dreams of a better life in America give Mei Ling the strength to endure the treacherous journey and detainment on Angel Island. But when she finally reaches San Francisco, she's met with a surprise. Her husband, Chinn Kai Li, is a houseboy, not the successful merchant he led her to believe. Mei Ling is penniless, pregnant, and bound to a man she doesn't know. Her fragile marriage is tested further when she discovers that Siew will likely be forced into prostitution. Desperate to rescue Siew, she must convince her husband that an orphan's life is worth fighting for. Can Mei Ling find a way to make a real family--even if it's built on a paper foundation?
Subject Families -- China -- Fiction.
Marriage -- Fiction.
Women immigrants -- Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Angel Island (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Fiction.
California -- Fiction.
China -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst00896624
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Female friendship. (OCoLC)fst00922609
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst00957973
Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
Marriage. (OCoLC)fst01010443
Orphans. (OCoLC)fst01048433
Women immigrants. (OCoLC)fst01177764
California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
California -- Angel Island. (OCoLC)fst01283491
California -- San Francisco. (OCoLC)fst01204481
California -- San Francisco -- Chinatown. (OCoLC)fst01322866
China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
ISBN 9781503904576 (trade paperback)
1503904571 (trade paperback)
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