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Praise for "Foreign Babes in Beijing":
AAn intelligent and complex portrait . . . DeWoskin deserves special praise.A A"The Wall Street Journal"
ADiverting and enlightening. . . . [A] super-charged volume.AA"Elle"
AAn intelligent, funny memoir.AA"People"

Praise for "Foreign Babes in Beijing":
"An intelligent and complex portrait . . . DeWoskin deserves special praise."-"The Wall Street Journal"
"Diverting and enlightening. . . . [A] super-charged volume."-"Elle"
"An intelligent, funny memoir."-"People"

Praise for "Repeat After Me"
"A tender story of manic love and loss, this is a heartbreaking and uplifting novel with memorably off-kilter leads."-"Publishers Weekly"
"This complex story of friendship, family, honor, and cultural differences is rich and deep. DeWoskin ("Foreign Babes in Beijing") has firsthand knowledge of China, its language, and its traditions, as well as life in New York City, and her characters live and breathe."-"Library Journal"
?Cultures don?t so much collide as coalesce in DeWoskin's sparkling debut novel, which follows the relationship of two people with more in common than their backgrounds would suggest. Aysha Silvermintz is a marginally neurotic, sublimely needy young instructor of English to immigrants in Manhattan's Upper West Side. Her student Da Ge is an intriguingly taciturn, softly menacing Chinese national who came to the U.S. in the wake of the Tiananmen Square uprisings. What they lack in fluid communication skills they more tha

Rachel DeWoskin is a writer who has been lauded for her "razor-sharp descriptions" (The Wall Street Journal), her "considerable cultural and linguistic resources" (The New Yorker), and her rare ability to offer a "real insider's look at life in modern China" (The Economist). Now DeWoskin, author of the laughout-loud funny and poignant Foreign Babes in Beijing, returns with a new novel about modern China and one American girl's struggle to find herself there.Aysha is a twenty-two-year-old New Yorker putting the pieces of her life back in place after her parents' divorce and her own nervous breakdown when a young Chinese student named Da Ge flips her world upside-down. In a love story that spans decades and continents, from the Tiananmen Square incident to 9/11, New York City's Upper West Side to the terraced mountains of South China, Repeat After Me gives readers an alternately funny and painful glimpse of life and loss in between languages.