An ocean apart, a world away
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Lensey Namioka
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780385730020; 9780385900539
Subjects: Interpersonal relations; Cornell University; Chinese; Juvenile fiction; History; Prejudices; Fiction
Description: Despite the odds facing her decision to become a doctor in 1920's Nanking, China, teenaged Yanyan leaves her family to study at Cornell University where, along with hard work, she finds prejudice and loneliness as well as friendship and a new sense of accomplishment.
Notes: Companion volume to: Ties that bind, ties that break.