The Moon Goddess's Smile

<p class=ql-align-center><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Secrets scars and stories-a fascinating historical novel of cultural & personal significance.</strong></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)></span><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>A biomedical researcher returns to China to transfer her late grandmother's apartment to her male cousin so he can marry. However a simple legal task to save her dwindling clan becomes a bureaucratic nightmare and her interracial marriage in Boston begins to unravel. While she struggles to regain equilibrium between two clashing cultures her homebound journey evolves into a midlife self-discovery.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The story portrays a resilient Chinese family that has survived a tumultuous century. Ultimately it celebrates the human potential to reach enlightenment during a crisis.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> </span></p><p></p>