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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Memoirs of an Ice-Cream Lady

Memoirs of an Ice-Cream Lady

Cairns, John
Ho, Emily

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ISBN10: 9888228250
ISBN13: 9789888228256
Publisher: Proverse Hong Kong
Published: Oct 15 2016
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A charming and humorous series of anecdotes and reflections by a single Chinese lady, who established and managed an ice-cream parlour selling top-end ice-cream on the small outlying Hong Kong island of Lamma. Here locals and some residents from overseas live in close contact, as observed and recorded here by Emily's unblinkered eye. Comments on the traditional Chinese attitudes to girls and unmarried women mingle with reflections on meddling neighbours, the odd habits of customers, the ingratitude of teenage girls and the antics of feisty ferry passengers. Petty quibbles find perspective from Emily's account of the impact on her neighbourhood of the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and her response to an earthquake disaster on the Chinese Mainland. Emily's perspective is quirky and unique, but unquestionably valid. Behind the amused and critical eye of a modern-day Mrs Gaskell is another object of concern - the writer herself: - what is her place in this world where her own values and emotions are so often at issue with most of those in her milieu?This charming story of an ice-cream parlor in Hong Kong's Lamma Island is a whimsical mixture of crazy characters, wise sayings, anecdotes, history and fantasies. A story of love and betrayal, told simply and straight from the heart.- Patricia W. Grey, author of Death Has A Thousand Doors (2011)

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