How Sweet The BItter Soup (NCTE)
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Her mom was working as a maid. Her dad’s
Alzheimer’s was in high gear. And the rent on
her parents’ small Chicago apartment had just
gone up. Again. But Lori was holding it all
together: helping care for her dad and pay her
family’s bills, figuring out how to navigate
graduate school and four jobs on top of her
family responsibilities, and, somehow,
continuing to believe that there was more to life
than this.
And there was. An exciting job teaching at a
prestigious school in China. Although the
previous month, she had turned down a job offer
in Iowa―thinking it was too far away from her
family―she felt completely at ease accepting
the job in China. Grasping on to the fierce
determination she’d had since childhood, Lori
found herself in Guangzhou, China, where she
fell in love with the culture and with a man from
a tiny town in Hubei province. What followed
was a transformative adventure―one that will
inspire readers to use the bitter to make life
even sweeter.