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    Beware of the Chinese Mama: Novel Excerpts About the Chinese Mama-fioso
    Beware of the Chinese Mama: Novel Excerpts About the Chinese Mama-fioso
    Beware of the Chinese Mama: Novel Excerpts About the Chinese Mama-fioso
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    Beware of the Chinese Mama: Novel Excerpts About the Chinese Mama-fioso

    By Melissa Yuan-Innes

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    "Why don't you write about your mother? That's what I like when I read Amy Tan," suggested a friend.
    That was why I read Amy Tan too. Still, I resisted the suggestions until I wrote the Hope Sze medical thrillers and a version of my family snuck onto the pages. And now, wouldn't you know it I am a Chinese/Canadian/doctor/mother myself. So now, instead of grinding my teeth, I can write about my mom while grinding my teeth.
    Tiger mother? Not strict enough. Dragon lady? Too disorganized. Girl yelling "Me love you long time?" Uh, try another era. My mother defies stereotype. She wants to help us so much, and yet...well, it's easier if you just read all about it.
    For my friend, and for anyone else who likes, or fears, or is a Chinese Mama, I have collected Chinese mama-fioso scenes from my books (Code Blues, Notorious D.O.C., Dancing Through the Chaos, The List, and Buddhish) in this 7400-word sampler. So you can laugh and shudder and maybe love her a little too.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOlo Books
    Release dateJan 3, 2012
    ISBN9781927341148
    Beware of the Chinese Mama: Novel Excerpts About the Chinese Mama-fioso
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    Melissa Yuan-Innes

    Melissa Yuan-Innes is an emergency room doctor and writer who lives with her husband, one son, one daughter, two cows, and too many mosquitoes outside of Montreal, Canada. She writes thrillers and science fiction/fantasy under Melissa Yuan-Innes, mysteries under the name Melissa Yi, romance under Melissa Yin, and children's/YA under Melissa Yuan. "Mixing mystery in with sheer humanity and splendid characterization, Yuan-Innes's story is a delight." --Alicia Curtis, A&E Editor, The Stormy Petrel "Melissa Yuan-Innes delivers a Bradburyian shocker" --Paul Di Filippo, Asimov's "Yuan-Innes employs a fresh use of language to spin a storyline that is at once universally familiar and intriguingly original." --Brian Agincourt Massey, judge of the 2008 Innermoonlit Award for Best First Chapter of a Novel, in awarding first prize to _The Popcorn Girl Meets Darwin Jones_

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      Beware of the Chinese Mama - Melissa Yuan-Innes

      Waiting for Jenny Rex

      by Melissa Yuan-Innes

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      In association with Windtree Press

      Copyright 2011 by

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      Anorexia nervosa came first. She was the first and the best. But then I'm biased, since I also like to think she came back for me.

      The autumn day she walked into my life, and back to life in general, started off as usual in the Ottawa Citizen newsroom. I was cutting two hundred words out of my movie review. It was raining hard outside, but I hardly noticed until my screen died and the room went black. In that astonished moment, a shadowy, angular form appeared in the doorway.

      Her heels clicked as she walked to the centre of the room. Her voice was young and clear. Hello. My name is Jenny Reed. I died from anorexia three months ago, and I've returned to be a spokesperson for the disease.

      Marsha, our sports editor, was the first to recover. Excuse me. You said you died from anorexia?

      "That's right. I died in the Ottawa General Hospital and I was buried in Beechwood Cemetery. Here’s a copy of my death certificate. You can ask me questions and get a doctor to prove that I am a) dead and b) Jennifer Emily Reed. But I’ll only spend an hour on that sort of proof. I want a front page story with

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