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THE MANY LIVES OF ANCHEE MIN

Anchee Min’s daughter is tired of her mother’s stories.

She knows the one about how much her mom suffered in Chinese labor camps. She knows the one about her malnourished aunt who couldn’t walk as a child because the nanny stole her food coupons and sent them to her own children in the village, who eventually died of starvation anyway.

“She knows them all,” says the Shanghai-born author, best known ...