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She attended tufts university and received an ma from the fletcher school of law and diplomacy, where she met her husband, winston lord, who was the american ambassador to china from november 1985 through april 1989. The middle heart by bette bao lord book cover, description, publication history. Bette bao lord based her acclaimed middle grade novel in the year of the boar and. Your purchase supports more than words, a nonprofit job training program for youth, empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. Click to read more about the middle heart by bette bao lord. The middle heart enchanted readers of bette bao lord s memorable first novel of china, spring moon, fell in love with its heroine and kept it on the bestseller lists for months. Her new novel, the middle heart, draws on her facility with all these genres it. See all books authored by bette bao lord, including in the year of the boar and jackie robinson, and spring moon, and more on. Three works by chineseamerican womendiana chang, bette bao lord. In 1932, as japan conquers manchuria, three young people the master of a noble clan, his servant, and a gravediggers daughterform a passionate alliance that is challenged and tested through the years as they become a political leader, a writer, and a g.
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