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Karin’s 2025 Year in Books
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Karin K. Jensen
Goodreads Author
Born
in Oakland, California, The United States
December 27
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November 2017
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The Strength of Water: An Asian American Coming of Age Memoir
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I Can Be An Artist!
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Breathing New Life into My Book Publishing Journey
Throughout my childhood, my mother told stories of growing up in her father’s Detroit laundry business during the infancy of the auto industry, and later in a Cantonese village on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War. She also spoke of what it was like to survive as a live-in domestic worker and teen waitress in mid-century California. The stories felt almost mythological, being so far removed from my
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Blaine DeSantis's review
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The Strength of Water: An Asian American Coming of Age Memoir:
"What a wonderful memoir that Karin K. Jensen has written about her mother! A true labor of love to both the woman, her efforts and her memory. Jensen writes this book in her mothers voice, as if we are actually reading her mothers autobiography and d"
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"King Ying grew up in 1920s Detroit with her parents and sisters, helping out with their laundry. The increasing debts during the Great Depression meant her father sent her and her siblings to his mother in a remote village in Guangdong Province of Ch"
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"This is a fascinating and engaging memoir of history, culture and family. The author paints a vivid picture of her mother and her grandparents, in both 1920's Detroit and a remote village in China. The story is gripping, and heartbreaking at times - "
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| I love books inspired by family history. Inspired by her grandmother's diaries, Christine Walker tells both a coming-of-age story of a teen girl, Mattie, and a late-life tale of second chances. The story explores how fateful events and special people ...more | |
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| A fantastic suspense novel for the dancer in your life. The descriptions of what intrinsically motivates Stella and the other dancers of Frivolity, Inc., ring true, poetically capturing the physicality and intoxication of performing. And Julien, as t ...more | |
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