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Standing Out: a Cross-Cultural Journey of Self-Discovery

Angela Lee Chen

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Description:“It held my interest from cover to cover.” – Qat Wanders, editor and bestselling author.Poignant and wry, Standing Out is, at heart, a profoundly human story that explores the nature of belonging and finding one’s place in the world.Angela was born in New York City to Chinese parents. The loss of a brother when only seven, and her parents going on to adopt two more, made for an ever-changing family dynamic.Decisions her parents made played out across three continents. At the age of three, the family relocated to Kenya in East Africa for her father’s UN job, where she grew up surrounded by international expats’ children and traveled with her parents on home leave to China every two years.With a quiet, authoritarian father and a distant mother, she learned early to find affirmation outside the home. She flourished academically, graduating with a biology degree from Yale and a doctorate in acupuncture and Chinese medicine. The sudden death of her father caused a major shift in her life as she inherited the care of her mother’s Alzheimer’s.Through life's inevitable turns, Angela's resilience and love of people show through.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Standing Out: a Cross-Cultural Journey of Self-Discovery. To get started finding Standing Out: a Cross-Cultural Journey of Self-Discovery, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 386

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Blue Peony Publishing

Release: 2019

ISBN: 1945490020

Description: “It held my interest from cover to cover.” – Qat Wanders, editor and bestselling author.Poignant and wry, Standing Out is, at heart, a profoundly human story that explores the nature of belonging and finding one’s place in the world.Angela was born in New York City to Chinese parents. The loss of a brother when only seven, and her parents going on to adopt two more, made for an ever-changing family dynamic.Decisions her parents made played out across three continents. At the age of three, the family relocated to Kenya in East Africa for her father’s UN job, where she grew up surrounded by international expats’ children and traveled with her parents on home leave to China every two years.With a quiet, authoritarian father and a distant mother, she learned early to find affirmation outside the home. She flourished academically, graduating with a biology degree from Yale and a doctorate in acupuncture and Chinese medicine. The sudden death of her father caused a major shift in her life as she inherited the care of her mother’s Alzheimer’s.Through life's inevitable turns, Angela's resilience and love of people show through.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Standing Out: a Cross-Cultural Journey of Self-Discovery. To get started finding Standing Out: a Cross-Cultural Journey of Self-Discovery, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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