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Me: A Book of Remembranceby Winnifred Eaton with an afterword by Linda Trinh MoserA Chinese-Eurasian's autobiographical novel tracing a woman's dual quest for a writing career and romance.Winnifred Eaton published her books under a Japanese-sounding name Onoto Watanna but she was of Chinese ancestry. In this autobiographical novel Nora Ascouth is a powerless young woman typical of the working class. In the narrative as Nora journeys from her birthplace in Canada to search out a career first in Jamaica and then in the United States Eaton imparts her own experiences with rejection and the struggle to gain success and love. The autobiographical plotline likewise discloses a remarkable secret the author's ethnic shame and her reticence to speak of her own half-Chinese identity. I myself was dark and foreign-looking Nora says but the blond type I adored. Like other ethnic immigrants Winnifred and Nora are indoctrinated by America's Anglo preference.Nora's painful search ends however as the author's did. She gains achievementas a novelist.Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) the author of many popular books of the 1920s and 1930s was born in Montreal but spent most of her life in New York Hollywood and Calgary.