03852cam a2200577 4500 761412430 TxAuBib 20230213120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781478920908 1478920904 a0b670d6-73fd-4627-a8b2-ce89b1915ce1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3877291 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Lim, Jennifer. What We Were Promised [Libby Audiobook]. Hachette Audio, 2018. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 301MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 301MB. barnes and noble discover new writers. best book club books 2018. chinese-american stories. new releases books 2018. asian-american writers. Historical Fiction. contemporary china. crazy rich asians. books for amazon. Chloe Benjamin. novels by poc. Philadelphia. advertising. kevin kwan. world expo. Marketing. adultery. Shanghai. hotel. China. maid. HTML:<p><b>Set in modern Shanghai, a debut by a Chinese-American writer about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy family to confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises.</b><br /> After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling into a luxurious serviced apartment in Shanghai, Wei, Lina, and their daughter, Karen, join an elite community of Chinese-born, Western-educated professionals who have returned to a radically transformed city.<br /> One morning, in the eighth tower of Lanson Suites, Lina discovers that a treasured ivory bracelet has gone missing. This incident sets off a wave of unease that ripples throughout the Zhen household. Wei, a marketing strategist, bows under the guilt of not having engaged in nobler work. Meanwhile, Lina, lonely in her new life of leisure, assumes the modern moniker taitai -a housewife who does no housework at all.<br /> She is haunted by the circumstances surrounding her arranged marriage to Wei and her lingering feelings for his brother, Qiang. Sunny, the family's housekeeper, is a keen but silent observer of these tensions. An unmarried woman trying to carve a place for herself in society, she understands the power of well-kept secrets. When Qiang reappears in Shanghai after decades on the run with a local gang, the family must finally come to terms with the past and its indelible mark on their futures.<br /> From a silk-producing village in rural China, up the corporate ladder in suburban America, and back again to the post-Maoist nouveaux riches of modern Shanghai, <i>What We Were Promised</i> explores the question of what we owe to our country, our families, and ourselves.</p>. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-04-13 10:07:10. Tan, Lucy, 1988- https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/3877291-WhatWeWerePromised.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a0b670d6-73fd-4627-a8b2-ce89b1915ce1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/3877291-WhatWeWerePromised.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a0b670d6-73fd-4627-a8b2-ce89b1915ce1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) RV8