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Spa Girl: An emotional and inspiring saga based on a True Story Kindle Edition
Desperation will make you do things you never dreamed of...
Fifteen-year-old Mei Zi leaves her poor farming village to try to make a better life for herself. Suffering one misfortune after another, she finds herself lured a thousand miles from home, penniless and on the brink of starvation.
After a series of failures and catastrophes, Mei Zi throws herself at the mercy of a Shanghai spa owner, finally willing to do whatever it takes to survive.
Determined to make her family proud, Mei Zi still dreams of something more. When she meets a man from a seemingly different world, she must decide whether to throw caution to the wind and leave everything she’s ever known behind or continue swimming upstream in familiar waters.
An emotional and inspiring saga spanning five decades and two continents, this astonishing story of a mother’s boundless love and a daughter’s incredible courage is a testament to hope, resilience, and the power of family. A must-read for Amy Tan and Lisa See fans, and anyone who loves to root for the underdog.
★★★★★ "Spa Girl is an authentic saga demonstrating the true tenacity of the human spirit. With captivating prose, Virginia Gray will take you along this fascinating journey of one woman’s fight to find her place in this world." —Kay Bratt, International Bestselling Author of Tales of the Scavenger's Daughters
★★★★★ "At times heartbreakingly naïve, at others admiringly competent, it is a pure delight to witness Mei Zi overcome her often desperate circumstances with a tenacity that astounds." — Kelli Estes, USA Today Bestselling Author of The Girl Who Wrote in Silk and Today We Go Home
★★★★★ “One of my most valuable reads of this year...This heart-warming story reminded me of some of the great classics with its quality and storyline, and spotlighted those things we have and take for granted, while others must fight and burn for them.” — Goodreads
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateNovember 16, 2020
- File size585 KB
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- ASIN : B08CXBHHNN
- Publisher : (November 16, 2020)
- Publication date : November 16, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 585 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 427 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #778,351 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #104 in Asian Literature (Kindle Store)
- #187 in Historical Chinese Fiction
- #194 in Chinese Literature
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Bestselling Author Virginia Gray looks for humor in every situation. A graduate of Wake Forest University, she spent part one of her career as a college professor. But after years of research, eighty-hour work weeks, and generally trying to take over the world, she stepped away from academics to pursue her love of writing. And because no task is more daunting than making sense of the senseless male psyche, her stories always explode from the glorious mouth of chaos. (You're welcome.) Until she packs her bags and moves to the beach, she lives in the Midwest with her wonderful family and far too many pets.
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Readers, you are in for an extraordinary treat when you read this book. I fell in love with the characters, some rough and tough, others just trying to survive from one day to the next! When I started it, I felt so badly for these people in China, especially Guo Guo who suffered through more hardships than I would have believed possible. The perseverance and determination rarely ebbed, and about halfway through the book, I was praying for anything positive to happen. How grateful we should all be to live in the USA! I refuse to spoil this story for anyone, but trust me when I tell you that you can't help but LOVE this book. The anxiety it brought out in me was well worth it, and this story will remain in my heart forever! Thanks so much, Virginia Gray for opening my eyes much wider, and helping me to appreciate the way we live here, where all dreams are attainable! What a fabulous story you have created from a chance meeting. God bless you, and continued success in all of your writing! So well done!
Along the way, one of her main goals is to make her mother proud. She gained her strength from that mother who constantly told her to make a better life for herself. This is a story about the resilience of one woman and her family in a world that doesn’t value life—especially if it is female.
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From the perspective of an old reformed Highland salmon poacher; the perilous journey of GuoGuo, our young heroine, reminded me of that of a salmon smolt as it makes its way down the river of its birth towards the dangers of the open ocean. Sometimes, just sometimes, the smolt survives, to return many years later as a beautiful Atlantic salmon.