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Kathryn Ma Books in Order

Kathryn Ma is a series of 3 books written by Kathryn Ma.

Here, you can see them all in order! (publication year included)

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Kathryn Ma books in publication order

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3 books

1

Ten stories explore immigration, duty and difficult family relationships, especially among Chinese Americans in northern California. Children, parents, rivals and strangers navigate inherited resentments and unexpected obligations while searching for belonging within communities that both sustain and constrain them.

2

The Year She Left Us

by Kathryn Ma

2014

A teenager’s distressing return to her Chinese orphanage unsettles three generations of women in her adoptive family. As her mother tries to protect her, old conflicts expose the costs of assimilation, ambition and competing ideas of family duty.

3

The Chinese Groove

by Kathryn Ma

2023

An optimistic teenager leaves Yunnan for San Francisco expecting prosperous relatives and an easy welcome. Finding an impoverished, fractured family instead, he devises a plan to preserve his American dream and perhaps draw his unwilling hosts back together.

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