Shanghai Quartet: The Crossings of Four Women in China (Emerging Writers in Creative Nonfiction)

Lu (English, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) writes a poetic memoir of four women in China her grandmother, her nanny, her mother, and herself loosely structured as a "how-to" guide for her daughter, in the spirit of yi , a process of transference or diffusion of cultural tradition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)