NINETY-NINE FIRE HOOPS, a memoir
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Classification
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Contributor
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Creator
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Subject
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- Taiwan -- Biography
- Women -- Taiwan -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Electronic books
- United States -- Biography
- Taiwanese -- United States -- Biography
- Taiwanese Americans -- Biography
- Mormon women -- Biography
- Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography
- Merrill, Allison Hong
- Taiwanese Americans + Social conditions -- 21st century -- Biography
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Biography
Content
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Label
NINETY-NINE FIRE HOOPS, a memoir
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
NINETY-NINE FIRE HOOPS
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Sub title
a memoir
Summary
Allison Hong is not your typical fifteen-year-old Taiwanese girl. Unwilling to bend to the conditioning of her Chinese culture, which demands that women submit to men's will, she disobeys her father's demand to stay in their faith tradition, Buddhism, and instead joins the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Then, six years later, she drops out of college to serve a mission-a decision for which her father disowns her. After serving her mission in Taiwan, twenty-two-year-old Allison marries her Chinese-speaking American boyfriend, Cameron Chastain. But, sixteen months later, Allison returns home to their Texas apartment and is shocked to discover that, in her two-hour absence, Cameron has taken all the money, moved out, and filed for divorce. Desperate for love and acceptance, Allison moves to Utah and enlists in an imaginary, unforgiving dating war against the bachelorettes at Brigham Young University, where the rules don't make sense-and winning isn't what she thought it would be
Target audience
adult
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