{"id":7631,"date":"1997-03-02T21:17:30","date_gmt":"1997-03-03T01:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=7631"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:34:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:34:03","slug":"katherine-by-anchee-min","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/katherine-by-anchee-min\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine by Anchee Min [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/Katherine.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-33061\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/Katherine.gif\" alt=\"Katherine\" width=\"269\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a>In post-Mao China, Katherine, a young American, teaches English to a group of Chinese workers. Her life becomes especially entwined with two of her students, Zebra and Lion Head, eventually resulting in a disastrous love triangle. But Zebra and Katherine\u2019s relationship survives, and eventually, they prove to be each other\u2019s salvation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Katherine<\/em> is Min&#8217;s debut novel, following her more successful memoir, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/1997\/03\/01\/red-azalea-by-anchee-min\/\">Red Azalea<\/a><span style=\"font-style: normal\">. The raw urgency that served her nonfiction so well gets rather diluted in her fiction, which too often is marred by soap-opera-ish antics.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/what-do-i-read-next.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Asian American Titles,&#8221; <em>What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature<\/em>, Gale Research, 1997<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 1995<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6956\" title=\"Katherine.Min\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/09\/katherine-min.jpg\" alt=\"Katherine.Min\" width=\"125\" height=\"190\" \/>In post-Mao China, Katherine, a young American, teaches English to a group of Chinese workers. Her life becomes especially entwined with two of her students, Zebra and Lion Head, eventually resulting in a disastrous love triangle. 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